- Converted models are now available on the Hugging Face Hub and are automatically downloaded when creating a
WhisperModelinstance. The conversion step is no longer required for the original Whisper models.
# Automatically download https://huggingface.co/guillaumekln/faster-whisper-large-v2
model = WhisperModel("large-v2")- Run the encoder only once for each 30-second window. Before this change the same window could be encoded multiple times, for example in the temperature fallback or when word-level timestamps is enabled.