v1.4.3

[ggerganov]

This is a minor release, the main reason for which is that there hasn't been an official release for a few months now and some small things have accumulated on the master branch that would be nice to be upstreamed. I am planning a major v1.5.0 release with some new and long-waited functionality soon:

• Full CUDA offloading
• Efficient Beam-Search implementation
• Grammar support

The current version v1.4.3 should be considered in beta as I haven't worked intensively on whisper.cpp recently and there might be some issues that made their way in the code. I'll try to polish things in the next days and prepare a stable v1.5.0 release. In the meantime, any feedback will be highly appreciated.

Detailed API changes, features and new contributor recognitions will be included in the v1.5.0 release.

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This discussion was created from the release v1.4.3.

[npaine01]

Will 1.5 have whisper v3?

Also, will this be something that is updated on the paid versions of the apps as well, or is this just the GitHub downloadable versions?

[npaine01]

Also, I'm not sure how this works at all, but is there any way to have the software distinguish between speakers?

[ggerganov]

v3 support is already available in whisper.cpp. Support in 3rd party apps using whisper.cpp depends on their developers and we have no control over this. There is no support for distinguishing speakers.