Rank #1,927 4,120 starsPython

distil-whisper

by huggingface (organization)

Distilled variant of Whisper for speech recognition. 6x faster, 50% smaller, within 1% word error rate. (description from the project’s GitHub page)

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Stars: 4,120
Forks: 357
Open issues and pull requests: 75
Primary language: Python
License: MIT License (MIT)
Owner: huggingface · Organization
Created: Oct 31, 2023
Last push: Jan 8, 2025

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