Whisper with tiny.en or base en what is the difference?

[loninappleton]

In the current job I'm running purfview whisper xxx with, first tiny.en which turned out pretty good (to the length of my inspection and before any corrections.) Then that gave me confidence in running base.en the next minimal model in the list which I'm doing now.

In the past some of the models start out ok but in a long job like a 2 hour play they run out of gas.

I was wondering if any presets of number of cores in an old AMD 4 core CPU could increase accuracy but reduce speed. And then how to do that in the Windows environment.

[loninappleton]

I now see in a sample of Task Manager where there is an option to slow below what is set at normal speed in the CPU tab. I don't know if that's a good option. I've had to familiarize myself with a lot of this since not using the commands much. I don't know of any SE speech to text options to run slow for accuracy.

[loninappleton]

Well base.en locked up with about 5 mins to go. I left it along to run but doing another task after an 11 hour run might have glitched it. Then again maybe the old Phenom and an HD wasn't fast enough. I'll first try another run, then move the job to an SSD and my ASUS Ryzen. I'm going to try the run again undisturbed.

[VoodooFX]

tiny.en or base en what is the difference?

tiny is the worst, base is a bit better than the worst.

I was wondering if any presets of number of cores in an old AMD 4 core CPU could increase accuracy but reduce speed.

Use more accurate model: medium, turbo, large-v2 [the best].

[loninappleton]

OK, so slowing down the run speed will not help accuracy or hang-ups.

[VoodooFX]

OK, so slowing down the run speed will not help accuracy or hang-ups.

What do you mean by "slowing down"?
Using bigger model - slows down the run - higher accuracy.

How do you know that it hang-up? Run it directly.

[loninappleton]

On a long run of 11 hours due to using an HD which is too long compared to using SSD, at 5 minutes of the countdown remaining, I quit it because the countdown started to add time and suggested it was hung up. It's possible I had some loose hardware, hard to say.

[VoodooFX]

Look at the Task Manager and check how much free RAM there is when you run it.
To have more free RAM, close all background programs. SE takes memory too, so use Faster-Whisper-XXL directly.