DeepSpeed

by Microsoft

Distributed Whisper / Conformer training at scale.

TL;DR

Distributed Whisper / Conformer training at scale.

Best for fine-tuning Whisper-large on a single 80GB GPU via ZeRO. Pricing: free.

Category
Open source
License
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Stars
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Last push
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Pricing
free
Platforms
Linux

What it is

Microsoft's distributed-training framework. Apache-2.0.

Best for: Fine-tuning Whisper-large on a single 80GB GPU via ZeRO.
Watch out for: Linux + NVIDIA only.

Install / use

pip install deepspeed

Features

Speaker diarizationNo
Word-level timestampsYes
Streaming / real-timeNo
Languages supported99
HIPAA eligibleNo

DeepSpeed vs Whipscribe

FeatureDeepSpeedWhipscribe
CategoryOpen sourceTranscription APIs
Pricingfreefree beta
Speaker diarizationNoYes
Word timestampsYesYes
StreamingNoNo
Languages9999
PlatformsLinuxWeb, API, MCP

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