Speech-to-text
faster-whisper
faster-whisper is a MIT-licensed speech-to-text engine (terminal/CLI) for Linux · macOS · Windows.
- Category
- Speech-to-text
- License
- MIT
- Operating systems
- Linux · macOS · Windows
- Install
- pip / docker / source
- Interface
- Terminal / CLI
- Model classes
- speech
- Latest version
- v1.2.1
- GitHub stars
- 24,255
As of 2026-07-13 · source · GitHub · homepage
Hardware
Whisper reimplementation using CTranslate2; up to 4x faster than openai/whisper with less memory
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