faster-whisper reimplements Whisper on CTranslate2 for dramatically faster inference and lower memory use, with the same accuracy.
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pip install faster-whisper
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faster-whisper has 24.3k stars on GitHub. It has been forked 2k times. faster-whisper is written mainly in Python. It has been in active development since 2023. faster-whisper is available under the MIT license. Its main topics are deep-learning, inference, openai, quantization.
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Is faster-whisper open source?
faster-whisper is an open-source project. It is released under the MIT license.
Is faster-whisper free?
Yes. faster-whisper is free and open source — you can use, modify and self-host it.
What license does faster-whisper use?
faster-whisper is available under the MIT license.
What language is faster-whisper written in?
faster-whisper is written mainly in Python.
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