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Releases: BBC-Esq/Faster-Whisper-Transcriber

5.3 - Whisper Turbo Added

20 Sep 13:37
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Added the Whisper Large v3 Turbo model. It's faster than the non-turbo model but about the same as the "distilled" v3 model. That said, the distilled model and turbo model are very similar.

v5.1.0 - Translation Support

03 Sep 11:59
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Should be able to translate now. Only works with certain Whisper models. Let me know if it doesn't work for some reason.

v5.0.0 - New and Improved

17 Jun 17:44
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Added new features and overall made it more robust.

v4.1.0 - I Hate Pyinstaller

15 Feb 21:57
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Patch Notes

This section tracks minor updates following the 4.0.0 release.

The full release notes for v4.0.0 are provided below for reference.

Version Changes
4.1.0 Fix circular imports and pyinstaller issues.

v4.0.0 Release Notes

  • Added support for both Python 3.11 and 3.12.
  • Add a separate widget to actually see what's copied to the system clipboard.
  • Updated all dependencies.

v4.0.0 - new and improved

11 Feb 16:50
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Improvements

  • Added support for both Python 3.11 and 3.12.
  • Add a separate widget to actually see what's copied to the system clipboard.
  • Updated all dependencies.

v3.3.0 - good stuff

16 Oct 03:30
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Improved thread handling and a host of other improvements as well.

v3.2.1 - distil whisper dude!

04 Oct 23:05
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See notes for v3.2.0

v3.2.0 - distil-whisper in da house

04 Oct 14:42
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Added "distil" variants of the Whisper models for increased speed and efficiency.

Added multithreading so the GUI should no longer freeze when transcribing nor when simply downloading a model.

Full Changelog: v3.1.1...v3.2.0

v3.1.1 - faster-whisper-transcriber

17 Sep 08:17
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Patch release to make setting cuda-related paths more robust.

v3.1.0 - faster installation

31 Jul 20:48
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Improvements

  • Modified setup.py to utilize the powerful uv package to speedup installation by approximately 2-4x.
  • Removed all Ctranslate2 quantization options except float32, bfloat16, and float16. Nobody really used them...
  • Upgraded certain library versions.