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faster-whisper-large-ct2

Available as managed deployment Audio deepdml · community Speech→text 1 variants 92k dl/mo

faster-whisper-large-ct2 is an open-weight audio or speech model from deepdml. AxForge deploys and operates it for you on dedicated EU-owned hardware — with the licence handled where one is required.

Available as managed deployment — configured and operated for you on dedicated EU hardware, quoted per deployment.

What it is

Released bydeepdml
TypeAudio & music
TaskSpeech→text
Runs withctranslate2
Released2024-10-01
Popularity92k downloads / month
LicenceOpen weights

About

What faster-whisper-large-ct2 is

This repository contains the conversion of deepdml/whisper-large-v3-turbo to the CTranslate2 model format.

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

Read the full model card

Example

from faster_whisper import WhisperModel

model = WhisperModel("deepdml/faster-whisper-large-v3-turbo-ct2")

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

Conversion details

The original model was converted with the following command:

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

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.

Citation

Please cite the model using the following BibTeX entry:

@misc{deepdml/faster-whisper-large-v3-turbo-ct2,
      title={Faster Whisper ct2 large-v3 turbo},
      author={Jimenez, David},
      howpublished={\url{https://huggingface.co/deepdml/faster-whisper-large-v3-turbo-ct2}},
      year={2024}
    }

From the published model card. Full card on the HuggingFace links in the sidebar.

How it works

How audio & music work

Audio or textinputAudio modelrecognise / synthesiseText or audiooutputSpeech-to-text turns audio into text; text-to-speech and music models turn text into audio.

Using it via the API

Call it like any OpenAI endpoint

Once AxForge deploys faster-whisper-large-ct2 for you, it answers on the OpenAI-compatible API — the same base URL and keys as every other model. (faster-whisper-large-ct2 below is illustrative; you get the exact model name on deployment.)

$ curl -sS https://api.axforge.ai/v1/audio/transcriptions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $AXFORGE_API_KEY" \
  -F model="faster-whisper-large-ct2" -F file=@audio.mp3

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