whisper-small-ct2-float32

🗣️ Whisper Small — CTranslate2 (float32)

This is OpenAI's whisper-small converted to CTranslate2 format with float32 precision.

[!TIP] Also available in other precisions: float16 · bfloat16

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📋 Details

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⚡ 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="small",
    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.

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📦 All Available CTranslate2 Whisper Models

Every model below is hosted at huggingface.co/ctranslate2-4you and works with whisper-s2t-reborn.

🌍 Standard Whisper (Multilingual)

🇺🇸 Whisper English-Only

⚡ Distilled Whisper

🚀 Whisper Large-v3 Turbo

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🔗 Links

• 📦 Inference library — whisper-s2t-reborn
• 🏗️ CTranslate2 — github.com/OpenNMT/CTranslate2
• 🧠 Original model — openai/whisper-small