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Local Whisper STT stalls when HuggingFace Hub unreachable

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1 open item. Fix merged in #111359 on 15 Sep 2026. Check it covers your case.

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A bug causes local speech-to-text using Whisper to silently stall or fail when the HuggingFace Hub is inaccessible, because the code performs a network round-trip even for cached models. Several fix attempts address loading cached models offline and documenting environment variable workarounds for network-restricted hosts.

Open issues0

No open issues.

Open PRs1

  • PR#111085fix(stt): prefer cached local whisper models

Fixes on record

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  • #111359 fix(stt): local faster-whisper loads a cached model without a Hub round-trip and names the HF mirror levers (#111072, salvage #111085)

    merged to main

    files: tests/tools/test_transcription_tools.py, tools/transcription_local.py, tools/transcription_tools.py, website/docs/user-guide/features/tts.md, website/docs/user-guide/features/voice-mode.md

3 PRs closed without merging

From the close comments: duplicate 2 · merged via another change 1

  • #110883 fix(stt): make the local-whisper CUDA → CPU rescue actually fire · merged via another change → a1cbed3, #112167
  • #111086 fix(stt): load local whisper cache-first and name HF mirror escape hatches · duplicate → 8d3bee5, 440076a, #111085, #111072, #110883, #103848, #105336, #110679, #75554
  • #111581 fix(stt): load a cached whisper model offline instead of stalling on a revision lookup · duplicate → #111359, #111072
Closed issues · 1
  • Closed#111072[Bug]: Local STT silently stalls ~173 s (or hard-fails) on hosts where huggingface.co is unreachable — HF_ENDPOINT / HF_HUB_DISABLE_XET workarounds undocumented
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