faster-whisper is a faster implementation of OpenAI’s Whisper.

https://github.com/guillaumekln/faster-whisper

Someone else has added a “front end” to it so we can just about use it as a drop in replacement for Whisper.

https://github.com/jordimas/whisper-ctranslate2

We can easily install it with pip.

pip install -U faster-Whisper
pip install -U whisper-ctranslate2

For some reason initially the quality was worse then vanilla Whisper. Adding the “–compute_type float32” option improved the quality to where there was not any difference between them.