# faster-whisper vs SpeechBrain

| Attribute | faster-whisper | SpeechBrain |
|---|---|---|
| **vioscaleAI score** | 51.5 (33% (low)) | 42.2 (32% (low)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | 7 | 11 |
| adoption.dependent_repos | 35 | 0 |
| adoption.github_stars | 25,877 | 11,879 |
| content.faq | `[{"answer":"An open-source implementation of speech recognition that accelerates transcription using optimized machine learning inference, with support for multiple platforms and container deployment. It is indexed under Speech To Text.","source":"https://github.com/pricing","question":"What is faster-whisper?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"faster-whisper is open source, so it can be self-hosted and used at no licence cost. It is released under the MIT licence. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://github.com/pricing","question":"Is faster-whisper free to use?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"faster-whisper supports Windows, macOS, Linux and a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.","source":"https://github.com/pricing","question":"What platforms does faster-whisper support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. faster-whisper can be deployed self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.","source":"https://github.com/pricing","question":"Can faster-whisper be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 8 integrations for faster-whisper, including OpenAI API, OpenAI SDK, OpenAI CLI, HomeAssistant, Konele, Docker, AzureML and FastAPI. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://github.com/pricing","question":"What does faster-whisper integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. faster-whisper is published under the MIT licence, a permissive licence that generally allows commercial use and modification. Licence terms can change between releases, so verify against the repository for the version you intend to use.","source":"https://github.com/SYSTRAN/faster-whisper","question":"Is faster-whisper open source?","confidence":0.95}]` | `[{"answer":"A framework for developing conversational AI with support for speech recognition, synthesis, enhancement, and language understanding. Designed with flexibility and transparency for research and production use. It is indexed under Speech To Text.","source":"https://speechbrain.github.io/","question":"What is SpeechBrain?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"SpeechBrain is open source, so it can be self-hosted and used at no licence cost. It is released under the Apache-2.0 licence. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://speechbrain.github.io/","question":"Is SpeechBrain free to use?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. SpeechBrain can be deployed self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.","source":"https://speechbrain.github.io/","question":"Can SpeechBrain be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. SpeechBrain is published under the Apache-2.0 licence, a permissive licence that generally allows commercial use and modification. Licence terms can change between releases, so verify against the repository for the version you intend to use.","source":"https://github.com/speechbrain/speechbrain","question":"Is SpeechBrain open source?","confidence":0.95}]` |
| deployment.options | `{"on_prem":true,"air_gapped":true,"self_hosted":true}` | `{"self_hosted":true}` |
| description.long | A high-performance implementation of OpenAI's Whisper for converting speech to text, with features for word-level timing and offline processing. | SpeechBrain is an open-source framework that provides pretrained models and tools for speech recognition, language modeling, and conversational AI tasks. It enables both training from scratch and fine-tuning of models, with support for multi-GPU distributed training on diverse speech and text processing tasks. |
| features.capabilities | `{"fine_tuning":true,"open_source":true,"word_timestamps":true,"offline_on_device":true,"real_time_streaming":true,"speaker_diarization":true}` | `{"fine_tuning":true,"open_source":true,"speaker_diarization":true}` |
| integrations.count | 5 | 2 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"OpenAI API"},{"name":"OpenAI SDK"},{"name":"OpenAI CLI"},{"name":"HomeAssistant"},{"name":"Konele"},{"name":"Docker"},{"name":"AzureML"},{"name":"FastAPI"},{"name":"OpenAI SDKs/CLI","native":false},{"name":"pyannote.audio","native":false},{"name":"pyannote.ai","native":false},{"name":"OpenAI SDK/CLI","native":false},{"name":"Azure ML","native":false},{"name":"Transformers library","native":false},{"name":"OpenAI","native":true}]` | `[{"name":"HuggingFace"},{"name":"Orion"}]` |
| language.primary | Python | Python |
| license.spdx | MIT | Apache-2.0 |
| market.availability | `{"primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | - |
| platform.support | `{"cli":true,"mac":true,"linux":true,"windows":true}` | - |
| pricing | `{"type":"open_source","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://github.com/pricing","retrievedAt":"2026-10-15T20:28:12.642Z"}` | `{"type":"open_source","sourceUrl":"https://speechbrain.github.io/","retrievedAt":"2026-10-14T22:37:16.217Z"}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | yes |
| pricing.model | open_source | open_source |
| pricing.price_level | free | free |
| pricing.transparent | yes | yes |
| release.cadence_days | 27 | 120 |
| release.history | `[{"url":"https://github.com/SYSTRAN/faster-whisper/releases/tag/v1.2.1","date":"2025-10-31T11:34:00Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.2.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/SYSTRAN/faster-whisper/releases/tag/v1.2.0","date":"2025-08-06T00:32:35Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.2.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/SYSTRAN/faster-whisper/releases/tag/v1.1.1","date":"2025-01-01T14:45:17Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.1.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/SYSTRAN/faster-whisper/releases/tag/v1.1.0","date":"2024-11-21T17:19:27Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.1.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/SYSTRAN/faster-whisper/releases/tag/v1.0.3","date":"2024-07-01T10:05:08Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.0.3"},{"url":"https://github.com/SYSTRAN/faster-whisper/releases/tag/v1.0.2","date":"2024-05-06T02:08:27Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.0.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/SYSTRAN/faster-whisper/releases/tag/v1.0.1","date":"2024-03-01T10:46:22Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.0.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/SYSTRAN/faster-whisper/releases/tag/v1.0.0","date":"2024-02-22T08:56:53Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.0.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/SYSTRAN/faster-whisper/releases/tag/v0.10.1","date":"2024-02-22T12:08:53Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.10.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/SYSTRAN/faster-whisper/releases/tag/v0.10.0","date":"2024-02-22T11:55:44Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.10.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/SYSTRAN/faster-whisper/releases/tag/v0.9.0","date":"2023-09-18T14:34:26Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.9.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/SYSTRAN/faster-whisper/releases/tag/v0.8.0","date":"2023-09-04T10:01:17Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.8.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/SYSTRAN/faster-whisper/releases/tag/v0.7.1","date":"2023-07-24T09:20:02Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.7.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/SYSTRAN/faster-whisper/releases/tag/v0.7.0","date":"2023-07-18T13:30:31Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.7.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/SYSTRAN/faster-whisper/releases/tag/v0.6.0","date":"2023-05-24T14:22:34Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.6.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/SYSTRAN/faster-whisper/releases/tag/v0.5.1","date":"2023-04-26T15:41:33Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.5.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/SYSTRAN/faster-whisper/releases/tag/v0.5.0","date":"2023-04-25T15:04:48Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.5.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/SYSTRAN/faster-whisper/releases/tag/v0.4.1","date":"2023-04-04T10:58:53Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.4.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/SYSTRAN/faster-whisper/releases/tag/v0.4.0","date":"2023-04-03T15:29:31Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.4.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/SYSTRAN/faster-whisper/releases/tag/v0.3.0","date":"2023-03-24T10:00:28Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.3.0"}]` | `[{"url":"https://github.com/speechbrain/speechbrain/releases/tag/v1.1.1","date":"2026-08-27T13:52:38Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.1.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/speechbrain/speechbrain/releases/tag/v1.1.0","date":"2026-03-30T14:41:48Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.1.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/speechbrain/speechbrain/releases/tag/v1.0.3","date":"2025-04-07T17:05:07Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.0.3"},{"url":"https://github.com/speechbrain/speechbrain/releases/tag/v1.0.2","date":"2024-10-31T10:06:07Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.0.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/speechbrain/speechbrain/releases/tag/v1.0.1","date":"2024-10-01T10:55:15Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.0.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/speechbrain/speechbrain/releases/tag/v1.0.0","date":"2024-10-01T10:54:56Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.0.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/speechbrain/speechbrain/releases/tag/v0.5.16","date":"2023-11-22T02:28:28Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.5.16"},{"url":"https://github.com/speechbrain/speechbrain/releases/tag/v0.5.15","date":"2023-07-22T18:07:47Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.5.15"},{"url":"https://github.com/speechbrain/speechbrain/releases/tag/v0.5.14","date":"2023-03-24T17:40:58Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.5.14"},{"url":"https://github.com/speechbrain/speechbrain/releases/tag/v0.5.13","date":"2022-08-29T16:25:16Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.5.13"},{"url":"https://github.com/speechbrain/speechbrain/releases/tag/v0.5.12","date":"2022-06-26T20:19:45Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.5.12"},{"url":"https://github.com/speechbrain/speechbrain/releases/tag/v0.5.11","date":"2021-12-20T04:22:27Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.5.11"},{"url":"https://github.com/speechbrain/speechbrain/releases/tag/0.5.10","date":"2021-09-11T22:34:16Z","type":"stable","version":"0.5.10"},{"url":"https://github.com/speechbrain/speechbrain/releases/tag/v0.5.9","date":"2021-06-17T01:25:19Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.5.9"},{"url":"https://github.com/speechbrain/speechbrain/releases/tag/v0.5.8","date":"2021-06-06T01:42:20Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.5.8"},{"url":"https://github.com/speechbrain/speechbrain/releases/tag/0.5.7","date":"2021-04-29T17:12:43Z","type":"stable","version":"0.5.7"}]` |
| security.trust_center | https://github.com/security | - |
| security.vulnerabilities | `{"count":0,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=pypi&package_name=faster-whisper&per_page=100","last_12m":0,"max_severity":null}` | `{"count":0,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=go&package_name=github.com%2Fspeechbrain%2Fspeechbrain&per_page=100","last_12m":0,"max_severity":null}` |

## Capabilities (Speech To Text)

| Capability | faster-whisper | SpeechBrain |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Capabilities** |  |  |
| Real time streaming | ✓ | - |
| Speaker diarization | ✓ | ✓ |
| Custom vocabulary | - | - |
| Fine tuning | ✓ | ✓ |
| Word timestamps | ✓ | - |
| Punctuation formatting | - | - |
| Pii redaction | - | - |
| Vertical model | - | - |
| Offline on device | ✓ | - |
| Open source | ✓ | ✓ |

*Source: vioscaleAI. Generated 2026-10-16T18:31:41.930Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*