# FasterWhisper (/docs/runtime/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.

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

In BullSequana AI Runtime, 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)

Interacts With [#interacts-with]

* `KubeAI`, as part of the speech-serving and model execution layer.
* `Model Installer` and speech-oriented serving workflows, which are responsible for packaging and deploying transcription models.