←Back to NewsAI News/AudiomodelAudioGpusSYSTRAN's Faster Whisper Medium Transcribes 99 Languages 2.4x FasterA CTranslate2 conversion of OpenAI's Whisper medium delivers up to 4x faster transcription with lower memory, and it's crossed 830K downloads.SourceAlphaSignalPublishedSep 29, 2026, 10:01 AMAuthorAlphaSignal NewsroomRead1 min readA CTranslate2 conversion of OpenAI's Whisper medium delivers up to 4x faster transcription with lower memory, and it's crossed 830K downloads.Reporting is indexed from AlphaSignal. Rights remain with the original publisher and cited sources.Read original report ↗Next readsAlphaSignal · modelMoondream Shrinks Parakeet Redux Speech Recognition to 178 MBNVIDIA AI · modelNVIDIA's BigVGAN v2 Hits 44.1 kHz Audio With 3x Faster CUDA InferenceAlphaSignal · modelOrcaRouter's OrcaSAQ-2 Shrinks a 27B Security AI 71% to Fit One GPU