Distil-Whisper: distilled version of Whisper that is 6 times faster, 49% smaller

Re:Distil-Whisper: distilled version of Whisper that is 6 ti... by stavros on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @02:09PM (#38102350)

I have to say I love Willow, well done. It's a bit slow now, because I'm not running recognition locally (as I'm sure many people aren't), but it will be fantastic news if this helps me offload recognition onto my NUC (ie CPU-only) and can shave lots of ms off that way.

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Re:Distil-Whisper: distilled version of Whisper that is 6 ti... by kkielhofner on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @03:13PM (#38103415)

Thanks!

I'll be looking at this as soon as it is released tomorrow.

Separately, we have some Willow Inference Server improvements in the works that increase the speed of speech recognition on CPU by as much as 50% (depending on CPU supported instruction sets, etc).

Between that, the performance we already have, and this work it will be a dramatic improvement - even on CPU. I'm really looking forward to posting the benchmarks when all of this comes together!

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Re:Distil-Whisper: distilled version of Whisper that is 6 ti... by stavros on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @03:15PM (#38103442)

That's excellent news, that'll be great! I'm looking forward to that.

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