Package profile
faster-whisper
- Summary: Faster Whisper transcription with CTranslate2
- Author: Guillaume Klein
- License: MIT License
- Homepage: https://github.com/SYSTRAN/faster-whisper
- Source: https://github.com/SYSTRAN/faster-whisper
- Number of releases: 21
- First release: 0.2.0 on 2023-03-22
- Latest release: 1.2.1 on 2025-10-31
- Latest release size: 1.1 MB (pure Python wheel)
Dependencies
Faster-whisper has 11 dependencies, 5 of which optional.Dependent packages
| Package | Optional | Group |
|---|---|---|
| SpeechRecognition | true | |
| pipecat-ai | true | whisper |
| speechrecognition | true | faster-whisper |
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