m-bain

license

BSD-2-Clause(OSI)

source

public

core features withheld

no — an individual researcher's project from Oxford's Visual Geometry Group, with no paid tier

WhisperX is BSD-2-Clause and the published repository is the whole pipeline. It is maintained by its author out of academic research, and nothing is sold alongside it.

• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/m-bain/whisperX/main/LICENSE recorded 2026-09-27

  LICENSE body: "BSD 2-Clause License" / "Copyright (c) 2024, Max Bain".

• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/m-bain/whisperX/main/README.md recorded 2026-09-27

  README: "This work, and my PhD, is supported by the [VGG (Visual Geometry Group)](https://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~vgg/) and the University of Oxford."

PyPI downloads of the whisperx package.

• https://pypistats.org/api/packages/whisperx/recent recorded 2026-09-27

  "last_month":328332 for whisperx.

The usual way to get speaker-labeled, word-timed Whisper transcripts, but it runs one task by composing other engines and trains nothing, two steps below NeMo.

• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/m-bain/whisperX/main/README.md recorded 2026-09-27

  README: "This repository provides fast automatic speech recognition (70x realtime with large-v2) with word-level timestamps and speaker diarization."