whisper entering a transscription loop / possible regression

[MathiasSchindler]

I am using whisper.cpp (most recent commit a56f435) and the large-v3 model and I am getting the impression that the phenomenon of whisper getting stuck in a loop of repeating the same sentence over and over again is getting much more frequent than it used to be.

I am aware that this is not a new issue as such and I only have anecdotal evidence to suggest that it has been getting more frequent. Are there any parameters I can use to trade accuracy and/or to avoid this behavior even at the cost of some speed?

[ggerganov]

Do not use large-v3. I haven't checked what is the status recently, but last time I did this model did not work well even with the original OpenAI repo. Try using v2 instead

[sindresorhus]

I have reports about this happening for some of my users on large-v2 too.

whisper.cpp 1.5.4

[MathiasSchindler]

Do not use large-v3. I haven't checked what is the status recently, but last time I did this model did not work well even with the original OpenAI repo. Try using v2 instead

Thanks for your fast reply. I used large-v2 on the same file and the loop does not occur. Recognition quality is slightly worse, but nothing that I didn't expect. If this is a problem with the model itself, I should be reporting that to openAI directly.

[k1ng]

Same problem with large-v3.
No problems with large-v2.