Possible use faster-whisper (https://github.com/guillaumekln/faster-whisper) backend?

[tensorboy]

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[YuanGongND]

hi there,

Thanks so much for pointing this out.

Yes, I have used faster-whisper for another project, but am not familiar with CTranslate2. I believe whisper-at can be backed by CTranslate2 as we used the same Transformer block implementation as the original Whisper, but it is unlikely that I will have time to implement that.

-Yuan

[Ar770]

@YuanGongND, I want to make a PR with a faster-whisper implementation. Could you please highlight what needs to be done to implement it?

[dgoryeo]

@Ar770 , @YuanGongND , faster-whisper is a great idea. Did you by any chance get to implement that already?

[YuanGongND]

@dgoryeo

Thanks. It is a good idea, but I won't have time to implement (we are not a company). Third-party implementation is very welcome.

-Yuan

[dgoryeo]

Fully understand. I'm not an ML engineer otherwise I am keen to help.