Whisper is great. You can get faster results running the tiny model. I used it f...

alach11 · on March 30, 2023

If speed is important, you're much better off using a larger model and whisper.cpp.

pantalaimon · on March 30, 2023

Wow thank you! That's a nice speedup indeed, with whisper I get

    33,53s user 2,05s system 443% cpu 8,023 total

with the 'tiny.en' model whereas whisper.cpp gives me

    22,71s user 0,12s system 745% cpu 3,062 total

with the 'base.en' model for a 15s audio clip on an i7-3770 (8 threads).

alach11 · on March 30, 2023

Awesome! Thanks for posting the stats.

In my workflows I've found rare but noticeable quality differences between the model sizes. So when practical I try to use the larger ones.