# Purfview/whisper-standalone-win

Whisper & Faster-Whisper standalone executables for those who don't want to bother with Python.

Repository: https://github.com/Purfview/whisper-standalone-win
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/whisper-standalone-win
License Family: other
Topics: openai, speech-to-text, transcriber, whisper, asr, speech-recognition, subtitles, ctranslate2, faster-whisper, whisper-faster, whisperx, uvr, diarization, vocal-extractor, speaker-diarization
Last push: 2025-11-07T19:21:55+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 50/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 51, release rhythm 24, longevity 91
- inputs: {"age_days": 1285, "days_push": 299, "days_rel": 299, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 1}
- flags: no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 3163, forks 165 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:46.559831+00:00)

## What it is
Standalone Windows/Linux/macOS executables of OpenAI's Whisper and Faster-Whisper that transcribe audio and video to text and subtitles without requiring a Python installation. Faster-Whisper-XXL adds tweaks for movie transcription, diarization, vocal extraction, and translation tasks.

## Use cases
- transcribe video files to subtitles without installing python
- generate srt subtitles from audio
- translate foreign-language audio to english
- run whisper speech-to-text as a standalone exe
- diarize speakers in a recording
- extract vocals and transcribe them

## When to choose
- you want whisper transcription with no Python setup
- you need fast, low-RAM transcription via Faster-Whisper/CTranslate2
- you want to integrate ASR into tools like Subtitle Edit or PotPlayer

## When to avoid
- you need to embed whisper in a Python application or customize the model code
- you need the latest upstream Whisper features, since vanilla Whisper here is stagnant

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: active
- function: speech-recognition, cli, audio-processing
- domain: speech-processing, media
- platform: windows, cli
- tags: whisper, faster-whisper, transcription, subtitles, standalone-executables, speaker-diarization, vocal-extraction, ctranslate2, command-line, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- Purfview/whisper-standalone-win (main) score 50

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:46.559831+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T07:25:12.892742+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/Purfview/whisper-standalone-win (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:46.559831+00:00, sha 65bca8330916)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.