Open-Source ASR That Runs Faster on CPU Than Whisper on GPU
FunASR is an industrial‑grade, open‑source speech‑recognition toolkit that combines VAD, transcription, punctuation, speaker diarization and emotion detection in one call, achieving up to 170× real‑time on GPU and 17× on CPU, outperforming Whisper while supporting 50+ languages and offering OpenAI‑compatible APIs.
