# FasterWhisper (/docs/foundation/components/faster-whisper)



## Component Category [#component-category]

Inference / speech-to-text

## Component Description [#component-description]

FasterWhisper is an optimized implementation of Whisper for efficient speech transcription workloads. BullSequana AI runs it inside the backend-owned Speaches service rather than as an independently deployed component.

## Why It Is Used [#why-it-is-used]

In BullSequana AI Foundation, FasterWhisper supports audio transcription use cases with lower latency and lower resource consumption than a baseline Whisper deployment.

## Learn More [#learn-more]

* [faster-whisper on GitHub](https://github.com/SYSTRAN/faster-whisper)

## Deployment notes [#deployment-notes]

FasterWhisper runs inside the [Speaches service](/docs/ai/components/speaches). Speech-to-text is exposed through the authenticated BSQAI API, which supports batch transcription and real-time WebSocket sessions. Operators select CPU or GPU execution and the corresponding Whisper model through the AI service configuration.

## Interacts With [#interacts-with]

* `BSQAI API`, which exposes batch and real-time speech-to-text operations.
* `Speaches`, which hosts FasterWhisper and the platform's speech-generation engines.
* `AI Web Portal`, which uses speech services for voice dictation.