Faster Whisper
Faster Whisper transcription using CTranslate2 for efficient speech-to-text.
Model SDKs PyPI MIT Speech to text
How Faster Whisper is used
Faster Whisper is a dependency in 20 of the 6,208 public GitHub projects set up for AI coding agents that we scanned (1.2% of the 1,622 Python ones), #16 of 79 in model sdks. Counting the projects our scan samples by dependency (Solana 2,661, Ethereum and EVM 1,496, 3D and games 2,818, agent frameworks and SDKs 10,983), it appears in 119; those are left out of every share on this page. Projects that use it most often also use FastAPI (65.0%), Uvicorn (65.0%), python-dotenv (60.0%).
Faster Whisper popularity over time
Gid Score 69: downloads 76, use in agent projects 53, GitHub stars 66, downloads trend 82 (each 0-100). How it is calculated.
Often used with Faster Whisper
| FastAPI | 65.0% of Faster Whisper projects · 8.7× more than average |
|---|---|
| Uvicorn | 65.0% of Faster Whisper projects · 8.5× more than average |
| python-dotenv | 60.0% of Faster Whisper projects · 6.5× more than average |
| Pydantic | 60.0% of Faster Whisper projects · 6.9× more than average |
| Requests | 55.0% of Faster Whisper projects · 8.1× more than average |
| NumPy | 55.0% of Faster Whisper projects · 9.4× more than average |
| Pillow | 50.0% of Faster Whisper projects · 13.0× more than average |
| cryptography | 50.0% of Faster Whisper projects · 21.3× more than average |
By coding agent
| Claude Code | 0.4% of projects set up for it |
|---|---|
| Cursor | 0.3% of projects set up for it |
| GitHub Copilot | 0.2% of projects set up for it |
| Gemini CLI | 1.1% of projects set up for it |
Share of public repos configured for each agent that list Faster Whisper as a dependency.
Project kits that use Faster Whisper
Short-video pipeline: script to finished file (caption timing), Video and audio to text: transcript, subtitles and notes (speech recognition). A kit is a tested recipe with an AGENTS.md your coding agent builds from, with exact versions and licenses.
Install
| Package | pip install faster-whisper |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | Python (17), Next.js (3) |
| Example projects | korovin-aa97/talkthrough-mcp, asukaneko/nekobot, leprachuan/Wee-Orchestrator, amanimran786/jarvis-ai, gupta29470/codewalk |
Alternatives to Faster Whisper
In our scan, none of the most used tools in Model SDKs does the same job as Faster Whisper: they are add-ons, companions or tools for a different task.
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