{"id":5050,"date":"2023-04-26T00:08:49","date_gmt":"2023-04-26T05:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/?p=5050"},"modified":"2023-04-27T22:34:19","modified_gmt":"2023-04-28T03:34:19","slug":"using-fasterwhisper-on-ubuntu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/using-fasterwhisper-on-ubuntu\/","title":{"rendered":"Using FasterWhisper on Ubuntu"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>faster-whisper is a faster implementation of OpenAI&#8217;s Whisper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/guillaumekln\/faster-whisper\">https:\/\/github.com\/guillaumekln\/faster-whisper<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Someone else has added a &#8220;front end&#8221; to it so we can just about use it as a drop in replacement for Whisper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/jordimas\/whisper-ctranslate2\">https:\/\/github.com\/jordimas\/whisper-ctranslate2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We can easily install it with pip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">pip install -U faster-Whisper\npip install -U whisper-ctranslate2<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>For some reason initially the quality was worse then vanilla Whisper.  Adding the &#8220;&#8211;compute_type float32&#8221; option improved the quality to where there was not any difference between them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>faster-whisper is a faster implementation of OpenAI&#8217;s Whisper. https:\/\/github.com\/guillaumekln\/faster-whisper Someone else has added a &#8220;front end&#8221; to it so we can just about use it as a drop in replacement for Whisper. https:\/\/github.com\/jordimas\/whisper-ctranslate2 We can easily install it with pip. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/using-fasterwhisper-on-ubuntu\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1458,1],"tags":[1454,1478,1466,49,1467],"class_list":["post-5050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ai","category-uncategorized","tag-ai","tag-fasterwhisper","tag-openai","tag-ubuntu-2","tag-whisper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5050"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5054,"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5050\/revisions\/5054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}