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distil-whisper

distil-whisper

by huggingface · GitHub

Distilled variant of Whisper for speech recognition. 6x faster, 50% smaller, within 1% word error rate.

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MIT
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📅 Created
2023
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🏷️ Category
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Distilled variant of Whisper for speech recognition. 6x faster, 50% smaller, within 1% word error rate.

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Distilled variant of Whisper for speech recognition. 6x faster, 50% smaller, within 1% word error rate.

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distil-whisper is an open-source project. It is released under the MIT license.

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Yes. distil-whisper is free and open source — you can use, modify and self-host it.

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