Issues

• Importing faster_whisper.vad (or any submodule) eagerly pulls in the full Whisper/ctranslate2/transformers stack via __init__.py

  SYSTRAN/faster-whisper#1479 · Filter by author Takemicom opened on Aug 22, 2026

• multilingual=True silently returns translated text unless condition_on_previous_text=False

  SYSTRAN/faster-whisper#1476 · Filter by author napoleonmm83 opened on Aug 16, 2026
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• decode_audio crashes with "Frame does not match AudioFifo parameters" on files whose sample rate/format changes mid-stream

  SYSTRAN/faster-whisper#1451 · Filter by author raivisdejus opened on Jun 1, 2026

• BatchedInferencePipeline segments are much larger than normal model

  SYSTRAN/faster-whisper#1396 · Filter by author plutonium-239 opened on Nov 16, 2025
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• Why is VAD run on CPU? (it's faster on GPU, meaningfully so on long audio)

  SYSTRAN/faster-whisper#1388 · Filter by author jjhbw opened on Nov 5, 2025
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• Phantom hearing is prone to occur during multilingual transcription.

  SYSTRAN/faster-whisper#1322 · Filter by author jsrcdj9 opened on Jul 16, 2025
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• [FIX INCLUDED] BatchedInferencePipeline.transcribe does not seem to use append_punctuations and preprend_punctuations properly

  SYSTRAN/faster-whisper#1252 · Filter by author miroirdelame opened on Feb 20, 2025
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• Bug in faster-whisper batchinferencePipeline

  SYSTRAN/faster-whisper#1251 · Filter by author Salomonmejia1 opened on Feb 20, 2025
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• large-v2 does not support "yue" but no bug in faster-whisper

  SYSTRAN/faster-whisper#1228 · Filter by author Coconut3223 opened on Jan 17, 2025

• After using VAD, the start and end times of the recognized segments are incorrect

  SYSTRAN/faster-whisper#1119 · Filter by author zlyMaster opened on Nov 7, 2024
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• Memory on GPU not cleared after transcription

  SYSTRAN/faster-whisper#992 · Filter by author DinnoKoluh opened on Sep 6, 2024
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• Faster whisper holding memory not releasing it. Killing the flask server

  SYSTRAN/faster-whisper#660 · Filter by author naveen-medloop opened on Jan 28, 2024
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• Missing ending of transcription

  SYSTRAN/faster-whisper#351 · Filter by author hayrapetyan8768 opened on Jul 12, 2023
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• test short audio file with silence between sentence, word timestamp may not be accurate

  SYSTRAN/faster-whisper#120 · Filter by author johnchienbronci opened on Apr 6, 2023
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• Windows process crashes when the GPU model is unloaded

  SYSTRAN/faster-whisper#71 · Filter by author satisl opened on Mar 23, 2023
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