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m-bain/whisperXv3.3.0Jan 2, 2025by Barabazs

AI Summary

This release focuses on dependency updates (faster-whisper), enabling the distil-large-v3 model, and adding offline capabilities via the local_files_only option. It also includes infrastructure improvements like build workflows and installation testing.

Key Highlights

  • Support for model distil-large-v3 enabled via faster-whisper update
  • Added local_files_only option for offline mode
  • Updated faster-whisper to version 1.1.0
  • Added cache_dir parameter for wav2vec2

New Features

  • Offline mode support
  • Model distil-large-v3 support
  • Cache directory configuration
  • Installation testing and Python version restrictions
  • Verbose flag usage

Full Release Notes

## What's Changed
* Update faster-whisper to 1.0.2 to enable model distil-large-v3 by @moritzbrantner in https://github.com/m-bain/whisperX/pull/814
* latest faster-whisper support added by @Hasan-Naseer in https://github.com/m-bain/whisperX/pull/875
* Working version with pyannote:3.3.2 and faster-whisper:1.1.0 by @ibombonato in https://github.com/m-bain/whisperX/pull/936
* Add ultization to verbose flag by @H4CK3Rabhi in https://github.com/m-bain/whisperX/pull/759
* Added local_files_only option on whisperx.load_model for offline mode by @RoqueGio in https://github.com/m-bain/whisperX/pull/867
* adding cache_dir to wav2vec2 by @bnitsan in https://github.com/m-bain/whisperX/pull/681
* feat: add basic installation test flow & restrict python versions by @Barabazs in https://github.com/m-bain/whisperX/pull/965
* chore: add build and release workflow by @Barabazs in https://github.com/m-bain/whisperX/pull/966
* fix: update README image source and enhance setup.py for long description by @Barabazs in https://github.com/m-bain/whisperX/pull/968
* docs: update installation instructions in README by @Barabazs in https://github.com/m-bain/whisperX/pull/969
* fix: add UTF-8 encoding when reading README.md by @xigh in https://github.com/m-bain/whisperX/pull/970
* chore: loosen ctranslate2 version restriction & bump whisperX version by @Barabazs in https://github.com/m-bain/whisperX/pull/971

## New Contributors
* @moritzbrantner made their first contribution in https://github.com/m-bain/whisperX/pull/814
* @Hasan-Naseer made their first contribution in https://github.com/m-bain/whisperX/pull/875
* @ibombonato made their first contribution in https://github.com/m-bain/whisperX/pull/936
* @H4CK3Rabhi made their first contribution in https://github.com/m-bain/whisperX/pull/759
* @RoqueGio made their first contribution in https://github.com/m-bain/whisperX/pull/867
* @bnitsan made their first contribution in https://github.com/m-bain/whisperX/pull/681
* @xigh made their first contribution in https://github.com/m-bain/whisperX/pull/970

**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/m-bain/whisperX/compare/v3.2.0...v3.3.0