Unable to run whisper, getting an error

[DegreesK0]

I just installed whisper using the pip3 install -U openai-whisper command and when i try to run the command whisper transcribing_1.mp3 --model medium i get this error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/k/.local/bin/whisper", line 5, in <module>
    from whisper.transcribe import cli
  File "/home/k/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/whisper/__init__.py", line 11, in <module>
    from .audio import load_audio, log_mel_spectrogram, pad_or_trim
  File "/home/k/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/whisper/audio.py", line 8, in <module>
    import torch.nn.functional as F
  File "/home/k/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/torch/nn/__init__.py", line 1, in <module>
    from .modules import *  # noqa: F403
  File "/home/k/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/torch/nn/modules/__init__.py", line 1, in <module>
    from .module import Module
  File "/home/k/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/torch/nn/modules/module.py", line 8, in <module>
    from ..parameter import Parameter
  File "/home/k/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/torch/nn/parameter.py", line 2, in <module>
    from torch._C import _disabled_torch_function_impl
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'torch._C'

I figured it was an error linked to pytorch so i tried reinstalling that. I also tried reinstalling pip and python3. Did not work out.

I'm using Ubuntu 20.04.2 and python 3.10.6.

I'm new to this so not really sure what other info is needed. Let me know and I'll update.

[Robert-K-S]

I get this error when I try to execute Whisper as the user www-data from the command line (which I am doing to try to debug the failure of Whisper to run using the exec() command from PHP):

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/myrealusername/.local/bin/whisper", line 5, in <module>
    from whisper.transcribe import cli
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'whisper'

[Benjamin-Loison]

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