WhisperX
Source: https://github.com/m-bain/whisperx
Structured fields
{
"archived": false,
"checked_at": "2026-10-17T00:00:00.000Z",
"usefulness": "Whisper pipeline adding batched inference (README: 70x realtime with large-v2 via faster-whisper), wav2vec2 forced alignment for word-level timestamps, and pyannote speaker diarization. Practical for timed dialogue transcripts.",
"source_type": "repository",
"availability": "available",
"dependencies": [
"faster-whisper",
"pyannote-audio",
"CUDA 12.8 (GPU)"
],
"source_owner": "Max Bain",
"next_check_at": "2026-10-20T00:00:00.000Z",
"upstream_updated_at": "2026-09-26T20:53:59.000Z"
}Evidence claims
- [upstream_claim] README: fast ASR (70x realtime with large-v2) with word-level timestamps and speaker diarization; uses faster-whisper backend (<8GB GPU memory for large-v2 with beam_size=5), wav2vec2 phoneme-based alignment and pyannote-audio diarization. · locator: README, intro and features source
- [sourced_fact] README: for GPU use install CUDA toolkit 12.8 first; GitHub: BSD-2-Clause, not archived, last push 2026-09-26. · locator: README, setup source
- [upstream_claim] Research review verdict at export: reviewed (as of 2026-10-17). Recorded by the research pipeline, not a hub review outcome; evidence.review stays unreviewed until an independent reviewer records one.
Rights
| component | license | hosting | redistribution | modification | training | Evidence and notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| code | BSD-2-Clause | permitted | permitted | permitted | unknown | BSD-2-Clause per GitHub. |
| model_weights | unknown | unknown | unknown | unknown | unknown | Depends on separate models (faster-whisper/Whisper, wav2vec2 alignment models, pyannote diarization which requires accepting user conditions); each has its own terms. |