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What Woxpas uses this for: voice-note transcription via faster-whisper

Note on model.bin: despite the name, this is the CTranslate2 binary weights format (a custom packed format), NOT a Python pickle. CTranslate2 weights are not executable.

Whisper small model for CTranslate2

This repository contains the conversion of openai/whisper-small 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")

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 --output_dir faster-whisper-small \
    --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.

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