HuggingFace PEFT

Name: HuggingFace PEFT
Author: Hugging Face

by Hugging Face

LoRA / adapters for parameter-efficient Whisper fine-tuning.

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TL;DR

Best for domain-adapting Whisper on a single GPU without full fine-tuning. Pricing: free.

What it is

PEFT implements LoRA, IA3, prefix-tuning, and more. The community standard for cheap Whisper adaptation. Apache-2.0.

Best for: Domain-adapting Whisper on a single GPU without full fine-tuning.
Watch out for: Adapter formats not standardized across all backends.

Install / use

pip install peft

Features

Speaker diarization	No
Word-level timestamps	Yes
Streaming / real-time	No
Languages supported	100
HIPAA eligible	No

Links

GitHub repo ↗

HuggingFace PEFT vs Whipscribe

Feature	HuggingFace PEFT	Whipscribe
Category	Open source	Transcription APIs
Pricing	free	$4–$24 one-time packs (credits never expire) · $2 single unlock · 60 min free on signup
Speaker diarization	No	Yes
Word timestamps	Yes	Yes
Streaming	No	No
Languages	100	99
Platforms	Linux	Web, API, MCP

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