faster-whisper
CTranslate2-based Whisper with 4x faster transcription
About
faster-whisper is a reimplementation of OpenAI Whisper using CTranslate2, a Transformer inference engine that produces transcripts up to four times faster than openai-whisper at the same accuracy while using less memory. Further speedups are available via 8-bit quantization on CPU or GPU. Audio decoding uses PyAV, so an external FFmpeg install is not required. Maintained by SYSTRAN, released under the MIT license.
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Details
- Category
- Audio & Speech
- Price
- Free
- Platform
- Local/Desktop
- Difficulty
- Easy (2/5)
- License
- MIT
- Added
- Jan 29, 2026
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