Whisper (OpenAI) - Automatic English Subtitles for Any Film in Any Language - An Intro & Guide to Subtitling JAV

For those who are interested in anime style/vibe subs, the new whisperjav reelase (version 1.9.0) has added three new anime style models.
Two of them are from the Qwen family and one of them from the Faster-Whsiper family.
In my tests the Qwen finetuned sophia model picks up quiet speeches and nuances better than other models. The model is fast and relatively small (6GB). The downside is that since the model was finetuned on Kanji output, it sometimes produces Kanji letters of spoken words. Good LLM translators will pick the corresponding word and translate correctly (when instructed). But old fashion translators may not.

Also, the new FireRedVAD seem to work very well.
 
Hello mei2, just wanted to let you know that # WhisperJAV Colab Edition v1.8.12 (Expert) has the following error. Looks like the new version of Python is not supported. Thanks for your help!

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Hello mei2, just wanted to let you know that # WhisperJAV Colab Edition v1.8.12 (Expert) has the following error. Looks like the new version of Python is not supported. Thanks for your help!

I just updated the notebook and the repo. I don't have bandwidth to do a proper test. Please let me know if anything.

Note for the advanced users: as of July 2026, the latest release of ctranslate2 is compatible with python 3.13. I oppened the repo (uvlock, toml) to allow python 3.13. Because 3.13 relies on the newer numpy stack, I upgrtaded that too. The numpy stack upgarde would have needed more testing to make sure no downstream funny behaviour.
 
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