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distil-whisper

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

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Recognize speech quickly and accurately using a smaller, faster version of the Whisper model.

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

distil-whisper has 4.1k stars on GitHub. It has been forked 353 times. distil-whisper is written mainly in Python. It has been in active development since 2023. distil-whisper is available under the MIT license. Its main topics are audio, speech-recognition, whisper.

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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.

Is distil-whisper free?

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

What license does distil-whisper use?

distil-whisper is available under the MIT license.

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distil-whisper is written mainly in Python.

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