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faster-whisper

Local speech-to-text 4–6x faster than OpenAI Whisper with identical accuracy; GPU acceleration enables ~20x realtime transcription.

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npx skills add https://github.com/theplasmak/faster-whisper --skill faster-whisper
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As of May 1, 2026, faster-whisper has 1 weekly installs, 0 community reviews on SkillJury. Community votes currently stand at 0 upvotes and 0 downvotes. Source: theplasmak/faster-whisper. Canonical URL: https://skills.sh/theplasmak/faster-whisper/faster-whisper.

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About this skill
Local speech-to-text 4–6x faster than OpenAI Whisper with identical accuracy; GPU acceleration enables ~20x realtime transcription. Local speech-to-text using faster-whisper — a CTranslate2 reimplementation of OpenAI's Whisper that runs 4-6x faster with identical accuracy. With GPU acceleration, expect ~20x realtime transcription (a 10-minute audio file in ~30 seconds). Use this skill when you need to: Trigger phrases: "transcribe this audio", "convert speech to text", "what did they say", "make a transcript", "audio to text", "subtitle this video", "who's speaking", "translate this audio", "translate to English", "find where X is mentioned", "search transcript for", "when did they say", "at what timestamp", "add chapters", "detect chapters", "find breaks in the audio", "table of contents for this recording", "TTML subtitles", "DFXP subtitles", "broadcast format subtitles", "Netflix format", "ASS subtitles", "aegisub format", "advanced substation alpha", "mpv subtitles", "LRC subtitles", "timed lyrics", "karaoke subtitles", "music player lyrics", "HTML transcript", "confidence-colored transcript", "color-coded transcript", "separate audio per speaker", "export speaker audio", "split by speaker", "transcript as CSV", "spreadsheet output", "transcribe podcast", "podcast RSS feed", "different languages in batch", "per-file language", "transcribe in multiple formats", "srt and txt...

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What does faster-whisper do?

Local speech-to-text 4–6x faster than OpenAI Whisper with identical accuracy; GPU acceleration enables ~20x realtime transcription.

Is faster-whisper good?

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Which AI agents support faster-whisper?

faster-whisper currently lists compatibility with Codex, Skills CLI.

Is faster-whisper safe to install?

faster-whisper has been scanned by security audit providers tracked on SkillJury. Check the security audits section on this page for detailed results from Socket.dev and Snyk.

What are alternatives to faster-whisper?

Skills in the same category include review-management, conversation-memory, coverage, grimoire-aave.

How do I install faster-whisper?

Run the following command to install faster-whisper: npx skills add https://github.com/theplasmak/faster-whisper --skill faster-whisper

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