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faster-whisper-small.en

by Systran Systran/faster-whisper-small.en

This repository contains the conversion of openai/whisper-small.en to the CTranslate2 model format. This model can be used in CTranslate2 or projects based on CTranslate2 such as faster-whisper.

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By Systran, published under mit, revision d1d751a5f827.

This repository contains the conversion of openai/whisper-small.en to the CTranslate2 model format. This model can be used in CTranslate2 or projects based on CTranslate2 such as faster-whisper. The original model was converted with the following command: Note that the model weights are saved in FP16. This type can be changed when the model is loaded using the computetype option in CTranslate2. For more information about the original model, see its model card.

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Whisper small.en model for CTranslate2

This repository contains the conversion of openai/whisper-small.en to the CTranslate2 model format.

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

Example

from faster_whisper import WhisperModel

model = WhisperModel("small.en")

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 openai/whisper-small.en --output_dir faster-whisper-small.en \
    --copy_files tokenizer.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.

Identity and Version

Repository
Systran/faster-whisper-small.en
Publisher
Systran
Task
Speech recognition
Modality
Audio
Library
ctranslate2
Parameters
Not stated by the source
Languages
en
Revision
d1d751a5f8271d482d14ca55d9e2deeebbae577f
First published
2023-11-23
Last updated
2023-11-23

Files and Weights

6 files, 486.1 MB in total. The weights are 1 file totalling 483.5 MB in bin.

Weights1 file · 483.5 MB
Configuration1 file · 2.7 KB
Tokenizer1 file · 2.1 MB
Documentation1 file · 1.3 KB
Other1 file · 422.3 KB
Repository1 file · 1.5 KB
Every file
FileTypeSizeSHA-256
model.binWeights483.5 MB 62b2a45b05ee
config.jsonConfiguration2.7 KB —
README.mdDocumentation1.3 KB —
vocabulary.txtOther422.3 KB —
.gitattributesRepository1.5 KB —
tokenizer.jsonTokenizer2.1 MB —

License and Download

License
mit
Access
Open weights, no gate
Download size
483.5 MB
Download from Systran

Released by Systran through its official repository on Hugging Face. Read the license.

Memory Requirements

PrecisionWeights in memory
As published483.5 MB

Weights only, from the published parameter count; the key-value cache and runtime add to this.

Questions About faster-whisper-small.en

Can I use faster-whisper-small.en commercially?

Yes. faster-whisper-small.en is released under MIT License. The MIT License is a short permissive license. It permits commercial use, modification and redistribution, provided the copyright notice and permission notice are included.

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