Faster Whisper Base
This is the CTranslate2 converted version of OpenAI's Whisper base model, designed for efficient speech recognition tasks.
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Release Time : 11/23/2023
Model Overview
Whisper is an automatic speech recognition (ASR) system trained to handle multilingual speech transcription. This version is optimized with CTranslate2 for improved inference performance.
Model Features
Multilingual support
Supports speech recognition in 96 languages
Efficient inference
Optimized with CTranslate2 for faster inference speed compared to the original implementation
FP16 quantization
Model weights saved in FP16 format to balance precision and performance
Model Capabilities
Speech-to-text
Multilingual speech recognition
Real-time speech transcription
Use Cases
Speech transcription
Meeting minutes
Automatically transcribe meeting recordings
Generate accurate meeting transcripts
Subtitle generation
Generate subtitles for video content
Supports subtitles in multiple languages
Voice assistant
Voice command recognition
Recognize user voice commands
High-accuracy command recognition
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