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distil-large-v3

distil-whisper

Distil-Whisper was proposed in the paper Robust Knowledge Distillation via Large-Scale Pseudo Labelling. This is the third and final installment of the Distil-Whisper English series. It the knowledge distilled version of OpenAI's Whisper large-v3, the latest and most performant Whisper model to date. Compared to previous Distil-Whisper models, the distillation procedure for distil-large-v3 has been adapted to give **superior long-form transcription accuracy** with OpenAI's **sequential long-form algorithm**.

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distil-large-v3.5

distil-whisper

Distil-Whisper is the knowledge-distilled version of OpenAI's Whisper-Large-v3, described in the paper Robust Knowledge Distillation via Large-Scale Pseudo Labelling. As the newest addition to the Distil-Whisper English family, Distil-Large-v3.5 maintains the high efficiency of its predecessors while delivering better performance. Compared to earlier models, Distil-Large-v3.5 has been trained on over 4× more diverse public data (98k hours) and uses a "patient" teacher with an extended training schedule and aggressive data augmentation (SpecAugment) during distillation. This results in enhanced robustness and accuracy compared to previous Distil-Whisper models, making it suitable as a drop-in replacement. 1. It offers a different balance between accuracy and efficiency, remains **~1.5x faster** than Whisper-Large-v3-Turbo while performing slightly better on short-form transcription and falling ~1% behind on long-form transcription. 2. It works perfectly as a draft model for **speculative decoding** with Whisper-Large-v3. By keeping the encoder frozen during training, we need to load just two extra decoder layers and forward the encoder only once. This achieves ~2x faster inference compared to Whisper-Large-v3 while maintaining identical outputs.

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distil-large-v3.5-ct2

distil-whisper

This repository contains the model weights for distil-large-v3.5 converted to CTranslate2 format. CTranslate2 is a fast inference engine for Transformer models and is the supported backend for the Faster-Whisper package. To use the model in Faster-Whisper, first install the PyPi package according to the official instructions. For this example, we'll also install 🤗 Datasets to load a toy audio dataset from the Hugging Face Hub:

Speech recognition
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distil-medium.en

distil-whisper

Distil-Whisper was proposed in the paper Robust Knowledge Distillation via Large-Scale Pseudo Labelling. It is a distilled version of the Whisper model that is **6 times faster**, 49% smaller, and performs **within 1% WER** on out-of-distribution evaluation sets. This is the repository for distil-medium.en, a distilled variant of Whisper medium.en. **Note:** Distil-Whisper is currently only available for English speech recognition. We are working with the community to distill Whisper on other languages. If you are interested in distilling Whisper in your language, check out the provided training code. We will update the Distil-Whisper repository with multilingual checkpoints when ready!

Speech recognition
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distil-small.en

distil-whisper

Distil-Whisper was proposed in the paper Robust Knowledge Distillation via Large-Scale Pseudo Labelling. It is a distilled version of the Whisper model that is **6 times faster**, 49% smaller, and performs **within 1% WER** on out-of-distribution evaluation sets. This is the repository for distil-small.en, a distilled variant of Whisper small.en. It is the **smallest Distil-Whisper checkpoint**, with just 166M parameters, making it the ideal choice for memory constrained applications (e.g. on-device). For most other applications, the distil-medium.en or distil-large-v2 checkpoints are recommended, since they are both faster and achieve better WER results:

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