How to install faster-whisper [guide]

[WyattBlue]

ctranslate2 doesn't have wheels for Python 3.13 nor provides a source dist, so you'll have to settle for Python 3.12

1. Install uv
2. Go to a project directory where you want to use faster-whisper
3. Run uv venv --python 3.12
4. Activate the virtual env
5. run uv pip install faster-whisper

You can now use faster-whisper. Note that it will only be installed in your virtual environment. This is useful for preventing conflicts with other projects. You can use deactivate and source .venv/bin/activate to hop in and out of the virtual env respectively.