Downloading the Whisper model seems to be stuck on macOS

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I am trying to download the Whisper model for the first time on my MacBook, but the download seems stuck with no progress showing after 20 minutes. Downloading the model manually took me less than 10 minutes. Where can I place the .pt file I downloaded manually so that kdenlive will recognize the model? All the documentation seems to only apply to Windows and Linux (I tried to link to it here but apparently links aren’t allowed in this forum).

Some general information on my system:
OS version: 15.3.1
kdenlive version: 24.12.02

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I stumbled upon the answer:

  1. Download the model from GitHub. Link available at openai/whisper in the file at whisper/__init__.py line 31
  2. Put the .pt file at ~/.cache/whisper without changing its name (create the whisper folder if not present
  3. Notice: When I first put the file there it deleted both the file and the folder, so make sure you have a copy before doing so
  4. Launch kdenlive and enjoy the model