faster-whisper with multilingual

[RailWar]

There is new version of faster-whisper (but is has same version 1.0.3) on https://github.com/SYSTRAN/faster-whisper. It has a new parameter 'multilingual'. How can I update current package in vent/Lib/site-packages from sources?

[Jobus0]

To update faster-whisper, navigate to the AlwaysReddy folder in your terminal/console, then enter this:

Windows: venv\Scripts\python.exe -m pip install --upgrade faster-whisper

Linux: venv\bin\python -m pip install --upgrade faster-whisper

But just so you know, that new 'multilingual' parameter is specifically for when there are more than one language in a single recording.

If you just want to use Whisper in a different language than English, just set WHISPER_MODEL in your config.py to one of the multilingual models. The default is tiny.en. If you just remove the ".en" suffix, it will understand other languages too. Also no need to update the package for this.

For reference:

Size	Parameters	English-only model	Multilingual model
tiny	39 M	tiny.en	tiny
base	74 M	base.en	base
small	244 M	small.en	small
medium	769 M	medium.en	medium
large	1550 M	N/A	large

[RailWar]

I want to try the network instead of an Italian teacher. My native language is Russian. When I speak Italian, even with the tiny or base model, it says that it is English. I changed config.py and faster_whisper_client.py to specify the language. But it seems to me that using the multilingual parameter you can get better results.

[RailWar]

Unfortunately, upgrade faster-whisper installed the same version of the package. I would like it from https://github.com/SYSTRAN/faster-whisper

[RailWar]

however, I still don’t know if this version with two languages ​​will help me

[Jobus0]

First remove the old version

Windows: venv\Scripts\python.exe -m pip uninstall faster-whisper

Linux: venv\bin\python -m pip uninstall faster-whisper

Then install directly from the git repo

Windows: venv\Scripts\python.exe -m pip install git+https://github.com/SYSTRAN/faster-whisper.git

Linux: venv\bin\python -m pip install git+https://github.com/SYSTRAN/faster-whisper.git

[RailWar]

Thank you. It works. Always Reddy works without errors with the new version of faster-whisper. Now I will see how it will work with two languages. It would also be great if Piper TTS or another could speak two languages