Hugging Face has released updates to accelerate Whisper, their open-source speech-to-text model. By leveraging speculative decoding, they have achieved up to a 2x speed increase in inference times. These performance gains are being made available through Hugging Face's Inference Endpoints service, allowing developers to deploy faster transcription capabilities. AI
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RANK_REASON Blog posts detailing performance improvements and new techniques for an open-source model.
