UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xa4 in position 9: invalid start byte

[tt960922]

import whisper

model = whisper.load_model("base")

result = model.transcribe(r"F:\whisper\test2.wav")

print(result["text"])

I don't understand why I keep getting this error

raise RuntimeError(f"Failed to load audio: {e.stderr.decode()}") from e

UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xa4 in position 9: invalid start byte

[jongwook]

It appears that the code failed to load the audio file for some reason and even failed to display that error because e.stderr did not contain a valid UTF-8 string. Can you load the audio file using wave or scipy.io.wavfile.read?

[997042353]

Did you solve it?
I had the same problem today

[Jieszs]

I had the same problem when I use Windows system,and now I solve it.
The reason is i didn't install ffmpeg.
pip install ffmpeg-python

[Fengxiaoyu14]

That's correct, but pip install doesn't work for me.
I installed ffmpeg manually and added directory to PATH, and it worked.