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faster-whisper

Released on Feb 11, 2023

Reimplementation of Whisper based on CTranslate2: up to 4 times faster than openai/whisper with the same accuracy and less memory. Supports 8-bit quantization on both CPU and GPU.

Features

  • CTranslate2, up to 4x faster
  • 8-bit quantization (CPU and GPU)
  • Python, MIT
  • 99 Whisper languages

Version history

  1. v1.2.1Latest

    Ultima release verificata: mantenute le ottimizzazioni CTranslate2 e la quantizzazione 8-bit su CPU e GPU.

  2. v1.1.1

    Serie 1.x: API stabile per il modello Whisper, supporto ai modelli large-v3 e tooling per la trascrizione in streaming.

  3. v0.2.0

    Prima release taggata su PyPI: reimplementation di Whisper su CTranslate2 con benchmark pubblici rispetto a openai/whisper, whisper.cpp e transformers.

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