stable-ts archived, moving to something new

[luigi311]

Looks like stable-ts, the current backbone of this project, was archived on May 30, 2026 withc an indefinite pause. So we might need to look for an alternative backend to utilize. Looking through some of the previous comments i saw mention of ideally something that utilizes vulkan that way its a lot easier to utilize it with different GPU vendors as they all support vulkan at this point.

Vulkan supported backends

• whisper.cpp

Officially cuda only but ROCm possible

• whisperx

[McCloudS]

I have a branch that drops stable-ts for whisper.cpp, but in my opinion, the light testing I did wasn't producing as good of results. Maybe I'll dust it off again when I have time.

Another issue being I don't have an AMD or Intel card to try the full scope of the Vulkan builds. I might look at it again, but just because stable-ts is archived, doesn't mean Subgen has to stop using it.

[luigi311]

ohh whisper.cpp was actually my preferred method. i have some amd devices i could test with for the vulkan methods, though my understanding is if it works with nvidia on the vulkan side then it should work with the others though that can be something that is fixed as it goes on.

While true that stable-ts doesnt need to be dropped as of right now since technically its only been 3 months back so its not to far out of date, as time continues its gonna eventually become a problem with dependencies running into issues unless someone goes and makes a fork to atleast keep it working.

[luigi311]

i guess one thing to consider is, it doesn't need to be whisper only right? We could technically move to something else like transformers and use a completely different model such as ARK-ASR or Qwen or whatever else is better than whisper is now adays.