🗣️ Whisper Base.en — CTranslate2 (float32)
This is OpenAI's whisper-base.en converted to CTranslate2 format with float32 precision.
[!TIP] Also available in other precisions:
float16·bfloat16
📋 Details
| Base model | openai/whisper-base.en |
| Format | CTranslate2 |
| Precision | float32 |
| Language | English |
| Task | Automatic Speech Recognition |
⚡ Quick Start
Install the inference library:
pip install whisper-s2t-reborn
Transcribe an audio file:
import whisper_s2t
model = whisper_s2t.load_model(
model_identifier="base.en",
compute_type="float32",
device="cuda",
)
result = model.transcribe_with_vad(
["audio.wav"],
lang_codes=["en"],
tasks=["transcribe"],
initial_prompts=[None],
batch_size=1, # increase this to significantly improve throughput
)
for segment in result[0]:
print(segment["text"])
[!NOTE] Models are auto-downloaded from this repo the first time you run inference. No manual download required.
See the whisper-s2t-reborn repository for the full list of available parameters.
📦 All Available CTranslate2 Whisper Models
Every model below is hosted at huggingface.co/ctranslate2-4you and works with whisper-s2t-reborn.
🌍 Standard Whisper (Multilingual)
| Model | float32 | float16 | bfloat16 |
|---|---|---|---|
| tiny | Link | Link | Link |
| base | Link | Link | Link |
| small | Link | Link | Link |
| medium | Link | Link | Link |
| large-v3 | Link | Link | Link |
🇺🇸 Whisper English-Only
| Model | float32 | float16 | bfloat16 |
|---|---|---|---|
| tiny.en | Link | Link | Link |
| base.en | Link | Link | Link |
| small.en | Link | Link | Link |
| medium.en | Link | Link | Link |
⚡ Distilled Whisper
| Model | float32 | float16 | bfloat16 |
|---|---|---|---|
| distil-small.en | Link | Link | Link |
| distil-medium.en | Link | Link | Link |
| distil-large-v3 | Link | Link | Link |
🚀 Whisper Large-v3 Turbo
| Model | float32 | float16 | bfloat16 |
|---|---|---|---|
| large-v3-turbo | Link | Link | Link |
🔗 Links
- 📦 Inference library — whisper-s2t-reborn
- 🏗️ CTranslate2 — github.com/OpenNMT/CTranslate2
- 🧠 Original model — openai/whisper-base.en