That's the implication. If the distil models are same format as original openai models then the Distil models can be converted for faster-whisper use as per the

That's the implication. If the distil models are same format as original openai models then the Distil models can be converted for faster-whisper use as per the conversion instructions on https://github.com/guillaumekln/faster-whisper/ https://github.com/guillaumekln/faster-whisper/ So then we'll see whether we get the 6x model speedup on top of the stated 4x faster-whisper code speedup, at same/nearly same accuracy. I would generally start with the assumption that if something is significantly faster the accuracy has to suffer a bit, but increasing model size and/or settings such as beam size to compensate should allow same accuracy and higher performance (just not all of the stated performance gain).