faster-whisper

What's Changed

• only merge when clip_timestamps are not provided by @MahmoudAshraf97 in https://github.com/SYSTRAN/faster-whisper/pull/1345
• Fix: Prevent <|nocaptions|> tokens in BatchedInferencePipeline by @mmichelli in https://github.com/SYSTRAN/faster-whisper/pull/1338
• Upgrade to Silero-VAD V6 by @MahmoudAshraf97 and @sssshhhhhh in https://github.com/SYSTRAN/faster-whisper/pull/1373...

What's Changed

• feat: allow passing specific revision to download by @felixmosh in https://github.com/SYSTRAN/faster-whisper/pull/1292
• Support distil-large-v3.5 by @MahmoudAshraf97 in https://github.com/SYSTRAN/faster-whisper/pull/1311
• Feature: Allow loading of private HF models by @r15hil in https://github.com/SYSTRAN/faster-whisper/pull/1309
• bugfix: Get correct chunk index when r...

What's Changed

• Brings back original VAD parameters naming by @Purfview in https://github.com/SYSTRAN/faster-whisper/pull/1181
• Make batched suppress_tokens behaviour same as in sequential by @Purfview in https://github.com/SYSTRAN/faster-whisper/pull/1194
• Fixes OOM Errors - too high RAM usage by VAD by @Purfview in https://github.com/SYSTRAN/faster-whisper/pull/1198
• Add duration of...

New Features

• New batched inference that is 4x faster and accurate, Refer to README on usage instructions.
• Support for the new large-v3-turbo model.
• VAD filter is now 3x faster on CPU.
• Feature Extraction is now 3x faster.
• Added log_progress to WhisperModel.transcribe to print tr...

Upgrade Silero-Vad model to latest V5 version (https://github.com/SYSTRAN/faster-whisper/pull/884)

Silero-vad V5 release: https://github.com/snakers4/silero-vad/releases/tag/v5.0

• window_size_samples parameter is fixed at 512.
• Change to use the state variable instead of the existing h and c variables.
• Slightly changed internal logic, now some context (part of previous chunk) is passe...