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
• Offload retry logic to hf hub by @MahmoudAshraf97 in https://github.com/SYSTRAN/faster-whisper/pull/1382
• Refinements for clip timestamps in batched inference by @MahmoudAshraf97 in https://github.com/SYSTRAN/faster-whisper/pull/1376

New Contributors

• @mmichelli made their first contribution in https://github.com/SYSTRAN/faster-whisper/pull/1338
• @sssshhhhhh made their first contribution in https://github.com/SYSTRAN/faster-whisper/pull/1365

Full Changelog: https://github.com/SYSTRAN/faster-whisper/compare/v1.2.0...v1.2.1