alt.freeweights.tools / faster-whisper

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faster-whisper

Release: v1.2.1 (2025-10-31)Commit: 65882eeLicense: MIT

Whisper speech recognition on CTranslate2, up to four times faster with less memory.

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$ pip install faster-whisper

Overview Install Use with Freeweights License Provenance

Overview

Whisper speech recognition on CTranslate2, up to four times faster with less memory.

Kind: speech
License: MIT
Language: Python
Platforms: Linux, macOS, Windows
Latest release: v1.2.1 (2025-10-31)
Repository: SYSTRAN/faster-whisper

Topicsdeep-learninginferenceopenaiquantizationspeech-recognitionspeech-to-texttransformerwhisper

Freeweights links to the project and does not host tool binaries.

Install

$ pip install faster-whisper

$ pip install faster-whisper

Checked against the project's README on 2026-11-14. The project's own instructions win when they differ: install docs

Freeweights links to the project and does not host tool binaries.

Use with Freeweights

Run a catalog model

Download the weights from Freeweights first (HF_ENDPOINT or fw.py), then point the tool at the folder.

Catalog models it can run (189)

BUD-E-Whisper BUD-E-Whisper_V1.1 distil-large-v2 distil-large-v3 distil-large-v3.5 distil-large-v3.5-ct2 distil-large-v3.5-ONNX distil-medium.en distil-medium.en_timestamped distil-small.en distil-small.en distil-small.en_timestamped distil-whisper-large-v3_openvino_int8 granite-4.0-1b-speech-ONNX granite-speech-3.2-8b granite-speech-3.3-2b granite-speech-3.3-8b granite-speech-4.1-2b-plus granite-speech-5.0-2b granite-speech-5.0-2b-ONNX hubert-xlarge-ls960-ft kb-whisper-base kb-whisper-base-ONNX kb-whisper-large kb-whisper-large-ONNX kb-whisper-medium kb-whisper-medium-ONNX kb-whisper-small kb-whisper-small-ONNX kb-whisper-tiny kb-whisper-tiny-ONNX kotoba-whisper-bilingual-v1.0 kotoba-whisper-bilingual-v1.0-ONNX kotoba-whisper-v2.2 kotoba-whisper-v2.2-ONNX MiMo-V2.5-ASR MiMo-V2.5-ASR-MLX-8bit moonshine-base moonshine-base-ONNX moonshine-tiny moonshine-tiny-ONNX nb-whisper-base nb-whisper-base-ONNX nb-whisper-small nb-whisper-small-ONNX nemotron-3.5-asr-streaming-0.6b parakeet-ctc-0.6b parakeet-ctc-0.6b-ONNX parakeet-tdt_ctc-0.6b-ja parakeet-tdt_ctc-110m parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v2 parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3 parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3 parakeet-tdt-1.1b paza-Phi-4-multimodal-instruct paza-whisper-large-v3-turbo Phi-4-multimodal-instruct-onnx Qwen3-ASR-0.6B Qwen3-ASR-0.6B-4bit Qwen3-ASR-0.6B-8bit

and 129 more.

License

License: MIT
Class: Permissive

Read the license

Freeweights links to the project and does not host tool binaries.

Provenance

From: SYSTRAN <github.com/SYSTRAN>Newsgroups: alt.freeweights.toolsSubject: faster-whisperRelease: v1.2.1 (2025-10-31)Commit: 65882eeLicense: MIT

Repository: SYSTRAN/faster-whisper
Pinned release: v1.2.1, 2025-10-31
Release commit: 65882eee9f5cdbeeb2d877f1131d48cf241b327d
Default branch: master 6cb639e70786aea42b9233006ae60eaf07190bdb
Fetched: 2026-11-14
Takedowns: None.

Freeweights links to the project and does not host tool binaries.

Get it

Install Project repository

Works with

189 catalog models. See the list