Faster Whisper Large V3 Ja

🚀 Whisper large-v3 model for CTranslate2

This project offers the conversion of the Watarungurunnn/whisper-large-v3-ja model into the CTranslate2 format. It enables seamless utilization in CTranslate2 and related projects like faster-whisper, facilitating efficient automatic speech recognition.

🚀 Quick Start

This model can be used in CTranslate2 or projects based on CTranslate2 such as faster-whisper.

💻 Usage Examples

Basic Usage

from faster_whisper import WhisperModel

model = WhisperModel("large-v3")

segments, info = model.transcribe("audio.mp3")
for segment in segments:
    print("[%.2fs -> %.2fs] %s" % (segment.start, segment.end, segment.text))

📚 Documentation

Conversion details

The original model was converted with the following command:

ct2-transformers-converter --model Watarungurunnn/whisper-large-v3-ja --output_dir faster-whisper-large-v3-ja \
    --copy_files tokenizer.json preprocessor_config.json --quantization float16

⚠️ Important Note

Note that the model weights are saved in FP16. This type can be changed when the model is loaded using the compute_type option in CTranslate2.

More information

For more information about the original model, see its model card.

📄 License

This project is licensed under the MIT license.