HuggingFace Audio Course

by Hugging Face

Free open course on audio ML, including Whisper fine-tuning.

TL;DR

Free open course on audio ML, including Whisper fine-tuning.

Best for learning to fine-tune Whisper and other audio models from scratch. Pricing: free.

Category
Open source
License
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Stars
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Last push
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Pricing
free
Platforms
Web, Linux, macOS, Windows

What it is

The notebooks + materials behind the HF audio-ML course. Apache-2.0.

Best for: Learning to fine-tune Whisper and other audio models from scratch.
Watch out for: Education, not a runtime.

Install / use

https://huggingface.co/learn/audio-course

Features

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

HuggingFace Audio Course vs Whipscribe

FeatureHuggingFace Audio CourseWhipscribe
CategoryOpen sourceTranscription APIs
Pricingfreefree beta
Speaker diarizationNoYes
Word timestampsYesYes
StreamingNoNo
Languages9999
PlatformsWeb, Linux, macOS, WindowsWeb, API, MCP

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