diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index 07e46b1c..2780c89e 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -37,3 +37,6 @@
 [submodule "deps/opencv_contrib"]
 	path = deps/opencv_contrib
 	url = https://github.com/opencv/opencv_contrib.git
+[submodule "deps/whisper.cpp"]
+	path = deps/whisper.cpp
+	url = https://github.com/ggml-org/whisper.cpp.git
diff --git a/deps/whisper.cpp b/deps/whisper.cpp
new file mode 160000
index 00000000..306c88f4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/deps/whisper.cpp
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit 306c88f4d1286aec1bf96e544632897886af5501