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distil-whisper
huggingface/distil-whisper
Distilled variant of Whisper for speech recognition. 6x faster, 50% smaller, within 1% word error rate.
★4.1kstars
Python
MIT
Updated: 2d ago
📋 Project at a Glance
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What's this?Models project leveraging audio and speech-recognition, built with Python, open-source
Who made it?Maintained by huggingface team, 4.1K⭐ on GitHub, #357 out of 3201 in Models
Why does it exist?In the Models space, audio workflows faced efficiency bottlenecks. distil-whisper was built by huggingface to address these speech-recognition challenges.
What can it do?Key use cases: whisper
How to install with AI?Use an AI coding assistant (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot) to automatically set up pip dependencies and virtual env. Follow the README — the AI handles the rest.
🔗 github.com/huggingface/distil-whisper
🔗 github.com/huggingface/distil-whisper
Topics
audiospeech-recognitionwhisper