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20 mentions on Hacker News by 16 people: 1 story, 19 comments · first 2023-03-30 · latest 2026-01-09

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  1. …has features like diarization which whisper.cpp does not have in a production-ready capacity. [0] https://github.com/SYSTRAN/faster-whisper#benchmark [1] https://github.com/SYSTRAN/faster-whisper#community-integrat... [2]…
    comment by satvikpendem · 2026-01-09 · in Dell admits consumers don't care about AI PCs
  2. Hi, I don't know what's SOTA, but I got good results with these (open source, on-device) : https://github.com/SYSTRAN/faster-whisper (speech-to-text) https://github.com/rhasspy/piper (text-to-speech)
    comment by jankovicsandras · 2024-10-15 · in Play 3.0 mini – A lightweight, reliable, cost-efficient Multilingual TTS model
  3. …have something that can make use of a 4GB Nvidia GPU, which faster-whisper is actually able to [1] https://github.com/SYSTRAN/faster-whisper?tab=readme-ov-file...
    comment by __jonas · 2024-05-26 · in Self-hosted offline transcription and diarization service with LLM summary
  4. …mention, track, or even be aware of the likely countless projects that are built on it? [0] - https://github.com/SYSTRAN/faster-whisper
    comment by kkielhofner · 2024-04-17 · in Ollama 0.1.32: WizardLM 2, Mixtral 8x22B, macOS CPU/GPU model split
  5. …backed by an LLM to control Home Assistant (HA). Maybe someone is working on this already? TTS: https://github.com/SYSTRAN/faster-whisper LLM: https://github.com/Mozilla-Ocho/llamafile/releases LLM: https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Nous-Herm…
    comment by thangalin · 2024-04-04 · in Apple explores home robotics as potential 'next big thing'
  6. …did not find the model being described. *Edit* Ah, when you write faster_whisper, you actually mean https://github.com/SYSTRAN/faster-whisper ? And for streaming, you use https://github.com/ufal/whisper_streaming ? So, the model as…
    comment by albertzeyer · 2024-01-29 · in Show HN: WhisperFusion – Low-latency conversations with an AI chatbot
  7. …how this is accomplished and if there is any quality disparity compared to original? Repos like https://github.com/SYSTRAN/faster-whisper makes immediate sense on why it's faster than the original implementation, and lots of others do so…
    comment by thrdbndndn · 2023-12-13 · in Whisper: Nvidia RTX 4090 vs. M1 Pro with MLX
  8. …I had the same project idea recently. You may be interested in this for the step of speech2text: https://github.com/SYSTRAN/faster-whisper
    comment by adr1an · 2023-12-04 · in Now I can just print that video
  9. …the Distil models can be converted for faster-whisper use as per the conversion instructions on https://github.com/guillaumekln/faster-whisper/ So then we'll see whether we get the 6x model speedup on top of the stated 4x faster-whisper…
    comment by rjwilmsi · 2023-11-01 · in Distil-Whisper: distilled version of Whisper that is 6 times faster, 49% smaller
  10. I'm using this: https://github.com/guillaumekln/faster-whisper Smaller, faster, works well with CPU, multiple languages, etc.
    comment by jankovicsandras · 2023-11-01 · in Distil-Whisper: distilled version of Whisper that is 6 times faster, 49% smaller
  11. …and ROCm users either wait months (minimum) for sub-par performance or never get it at all. [0] - https://github.com/guillaumekln/faster-whisper#benchmark [1] - https://heywillow.io/components/willow-inference-server/#ben... [2] -…
    comment by kkielhofner · 2023-10-07 · in AMD may get across the CUDA moat
  12. …note that for those looking for a drop-in replacement for the whisper library , I believe that both https://github.com/guillaumekln/faster-whisper and https://github.com/m-bain/whisperX are easier (PyTorch-based, doesn't require a web…
    comment by lhl · 2023-09-12 · in Whisper Turbo: transcribe 20x faster than realtime using Rust and WebGPU
  13. …wscribe or whisper-ctranslate2 as faster-whisper is only a Python library. It's pretty good. [0] https://github.com/guillaumekln/faster-whisper/discussions/3... [1] https://github.com/guillaumekln/faster-whisper
    comment by satvikpendem · 2023-08-23 · in MacWhisper: Transcribe audio files on your Mac
  14. …Apple Silicon. If you have Nvidia hardware the ctranslate2 based faster-whisper is very very fast: https://github.com/guillaumekln/faster-whisper
    comment by mikeravkine · 2023-08-22 · in Whisper.api: Open-source, self-hosted speech-to-text with fast transcription
  15. …the database in ranges like this... I have learned... [0] https://www.nosuchthingasafish.com/ [1] https://github.com/guillaumekln/faster-whisper [2] https://github.com/noman-land/transcript.fish/blob/maste/db/... [3]…
    comment by noman-land · 2023-08-17 · in Ask HN: Tell us about your project that's not done yet but you want feedback on
  16. …you can do all of this yourself with whisper large v2 on a single 16gb gpu via some tweaking of https://github.com/guillaumekln/faster-whisper and an OSS LLM. Interesting stuff but I think margins in this space are getting ready to simply…
    comment by blackkettle · 2023-07-28 · in LeMUR: LLMs for Audio and Speech
  17. …which are much more expensive than GPUs. On "normal" GPUs the fastest implementation I've found is https://github.com/guillaumekln/faster-whisper . Whisper.cpp works faster on a CPU, especially on Apple Silicon, but still nowhere near the…
    comment by sebnun · 2023-04-22 · in Whisper Jax: Transcribe a 1 hour of audio in under 15 seconds
  18. You can speed that up 16x with "faster whisper" https://github.com/guillaumekln/faster-whisper
    comment by MacsHeadroom · 2023-04-05 · in Show HN: Ermine.ai – Record and transcribe speech, 100% client-side (WASM)
  19. Faster Whisper is 8x faster than real time on CPU and even faster on GPU. https://github.com/guillaumekln/faster-whisper Vocode uses Whisper for real-time zero latency voicechat with chatGPT. Give their demo line a call to see how well it…
    comment by MacsHeadroom · 2023-03-30 · in Universal Speech Model