
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)
Repository facts
- 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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