faster-whisper (2023) by Guillaume Klein / SYSTRAN

Record 057 · Voice · 2023

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faster-whisper

Guillaume Klein / SYSTRAN

“A CTranslate2 reimplementation that made local Whisper realtime on a CPU/GPU you own.”

faster-whisper is what a lot of HA, Frigate, and meeting tools actually call. Weights from OpenAI; speed from here.

Made local ASR practical, not batch-only.

Official site
  • CTranslate2 Whisper
  • Realtime-capable local ASR
  • Quantized encoders

Whisper, fast enough to live-caption.