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Well, I run my own OpenWebUI with Ollama, installed with docker compose and running local on my home server with some NVIDIA GPU and I am pretty happy with the overall result.

I have only installed local open source models like gptoss, deepseek-r1, llama (3.2, 4), qwen3...

My use case is mostly ask questions on documentation for some development (details on programming language syntax and such).

I have been running it for months now, and it come to my mind that it would be useful for the following tasts as well:

  • audio transcribing (voice messages to text)
  • image generation (logos, small art for my games and such)

I fiddled a bit around, but got nowhere.

How do you do that from the openwebui web interface?

(I never used ollama directly, only through the openwebui GUI)

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[-] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 1 points 2 days ago

Audio transcribing should be the little "waveform" icon at the right of the text input:

Image generation, I'm not sure as that's not a use-case I have and don't think the small-ish models I run are even capable of that.

I'm not sure how audio transcribing works in OpenWebUI (I think it has built-in models for that?) but image generation is a "capability" that needs to be both part of the model and enabled in the models settings (Admin => Settings => Models)

[-] Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 1 points 2 days ago

The audio icon works but only for mic... Uploading files seems to be useless as the model (any I have installed) just keep saying it cannot see the file and to give it a web link instead...

How that does it even work? Why can it grab an url but not a local uploaded file?

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