Blazingly fast whisper transcriptions with Inference Endpoints

Hugging Face unveils a blazing-fast OpenAI Whisper deployment on Inference Endpoints, delivering up to 8x speedups using vLLM and CUDA graphs on NVIDIA GPUs. The stack adds torch.compile, dynamic quantization to float8 and reduced KV cache precision to boost throughput without sacrificing transcription quality, with WER comparable to Transformer baselines across standard datasets.

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HuggingFace Blog

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MAY 13, 2025 · 19:10

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