WhisperLiveKit/docs/models_compatible_formats.md

Model Path Formats

The --model-path parameter accepts:

File Path

• .pt / .bin / .safetensor formats Should be openable by pytorch/safetensor.

Directory Path (recommended)

Must contain:

• .pt / .bin / .safetensor file (required for decoder)

May optionally contain:

• .bin file - faster-whisper model for encoder (requires faster-whisper)
• weights.npz or weights.safetensors - for encoder (requires whisper-mlx)

To improve speed/reduce allucinations, you may want to use scripts/determine_alignment_heads.py to determine the alignment heads to use for your model, and use the --custom-alignment-heads to pass them to WLK. If not, alignement heads are set to be all the heads of the last half layer of decoder.