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m-bain

whisperx

WhisperX: Automatic Speech Recognition with Word-level Timestamps (& Diarization)
PyPI GitHub
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whisperx has 1.1M monthly downloads and 23K GitHub stars. Version 3.8.6 supports Python <3.14,>=3.10, first published in 2024.

It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in May 2026.

It is built on top of ctranslate2, faster-whisper and huggingface-hub. It is used by 31 tracked packages, including millet-pipeline, subtitle-engine and easy-whisperx.

GitHub topics include asr, speech and speech-recognition.

Shared Repository
This package shares its GitHub repository (m-bain/whisperx) with 1 other package. Stars, forks, and other GitHub metrics reflect the entire repository.
Downloads
Day
35.7K
Week
266.8K
Month
1.1M
Stars
22.9K
Forks
2.3K
Issues
170
Version
3.8.6

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
90
Popularity
91
Adoption
80
Community
80
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
10 days ago
Monthly downloads
1,086,271
• Active
Activity within 30 days
Stable
Activity within 31-180 days
Minimal
Activity within 181-365 days, or no activity data
At Risk
No activity for > 365 days, but > 10,000 monthly downloads
Archived
Repository flagged as archived on GitHub
How the popularity category was determined
Monthly downloads
1,086,271
Stars
22,895
Stars per 1k downloads
21.08
Industry Standard
> 10,000,000 monthly downloads
Hidden Gem
< 0.5 stars per 1k downloads and > 100,000 monthly downloads
• Community Favorite
> 5 stars per 1k downloads
Rising Star
Balanced ratio of stars to downloads
Unknown
Fewer than 1,000 monthly downloads, or no star data
How download momentum is calculated
Week daily avg
38,111
Month daily avg
36,209
Momentum
+5.3%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
<3.14,>=3.10
Cutting Edge
Minimum supported version is 3.12 or newer
• Modern
Minimum supported version is 3.9, 3.10, or 3.11
Legacy
Supports 3.8 or older (or Python 2)
Unknown
No requires_python specified or unparseable
License categories
License
BSD-2-Clause
• Permissive
MIT, Apache, BSD, ISC, Unlicense, CC0, etc.
Copyleft
GPL, LGPL, AGPL, MPL, EPL, etc.
Proprietary
Commercial, all rights reserved, custom EULAs
Unknown
No license specified, or none of the above match
How the release cadence was determined
Last release
42 days ago
Total releases
44
Releases/year
18.2
• Rapid
Last release within 365 days and > 12 releases/year
Regular
Last release within 365 days
Slow
Last release 366-730 days ago
Stalled
Last release > 730 days ago, or no releases
Unknown
No usable release date available
How contributor risk was determined
Contributors
112
Monthly downloads
1,086,271
High Load
≤ 2 contributors and ≥ 50,000 monthly downloads
Moderate Load
< 10 contributors and ≥ 500,000 monthly downloads
Low Load
< 25 contributors and ≥ 5,000,000 monthly downloads, or sole maintainer with ≥ 10,000 monthly downloads
• Balanced
Enough contributors for the package's popularity
Unknown
No contributor data available
Engagement
83
 
Issue Burden
7.4
per 1k stars
Discussions
2.9
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
4.8%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
No
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.

Downloads by OS

Linux 19.8K
Windows 2.2K
macOS 1.6K

Python Versions

3.12
55.7% 13.0K
3.11
26.1% 6.1K
3.10
8.7% 2.0K
3.13
5.9% 1.4K
3.14
3.6% 835

Top Countries

1. US US
16.3K
2. IN IN
1.3K
3. FR FR
574
4. DE DE
498
5. BR BR
480
6. SG SG
467
7. JP JP
428
8. PK PK
298
9. NL NL
227
10. CA CA
226
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
BSD-2-Clause
First Release
February 6, 2024
Last Release
1 month ago
Last Commit
1 week ago
Latest Version
3.8.6
Total Releases
44
Contributors
112
Open PRs
29
Archived
No
Author
Max Bain
Wheels
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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