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 restoring timestamps by @MahmoudAshraf97 in https://github.com/SYSTRAN/faster-whisper/pull/1336
• Remove Silence in Batched transcription by @MahmoudAshraf97 in https://github.com/SYSTRAN/faster-whisper/pull/1297

New Contributors

• @djpg made their first contribution in https://github.com/SYSTRAN/faster-whisper/pull/1267
• @felixmosh made their first contribution in https://github.com/SYSTRAN/faster-whisper/pull/1292
• @r15hil made their first contribution in https://github.com/SYSTRAN/faster-whisper/pull/1309

Full Changelog: https://github.com/SYSTRAN/faster-whisper/compare/v1.1.1...v1.2.0