Distil Whisper large-v3.5 model for CTranslate2

This repository contains the conversion of distil-whisper/distil-large-v3.5 to the CTranslate2 model format.

This model can be used in CTranslate2 or projects based on CTranslate2 such as faster-whisper.

Example

from faster_whisper import WhisperModel

model = WhisperModel("deepdml/faster-distil-whisper-large-v3.5")

segments, info = model.transcribe("audio.mp3")
for segment in segments:
    print("[%.2fs -> %.2fs] %s" % (segment.start, segment.end, segment.text))

Conversion details

Note that the model weights are saved in FP16. This type can be changed when the model is loaded using the compute_type option in CTranslate2.

More information

For more information about the original model, see its model card.

Citation

Please cite the model using the following BibTeX entry:

@misc{deepdml/faster-distil-whisper-large-v3.5,
      title={Faster Whisper ct2 Distil large-v3.5},
      author={Jimenez, David},
      howpublished={\url{https://huggingface.co/deepdml/faster-distil-whisper-large-v3.5}},
      year={2025}
    }