Insanely Fast Whisper
CLI tool that transcribes audio 10x faster using pipeline optimizations.
About
Insanely Fast Whisper is a command-line tool that transcribes audio on-device using Hugging Face Transformers, Optimum, and Flash Attention 2 with batched inference to reach large speedups, transcribing around 2.5 hours of audio in under a couple of minutes on an A100. It is a community-driven CLI wrapper around optimized Whisper inference. Released under the MIT license.
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Details
- Price
- Free
- Platform
- Local/Desktop
- Difficulty
- Easy (2/5)
- License
- MIT
- Minimum VRAM
- 6 GB
- Added
- Apr 3, 2026
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