Support distil-whisper model (https://github.com/SYSTRAN/faster-whisper/pull/557) Robust knowledge distillation of the Whisper model via large-scale pseudo-labelling.
For more detail: https://github.com/huggingface/distil-whisper

Upgrade ctranslate2 version to 4.0 to support CUDA 12 (https://github.com/SYSTRAN/faster-whisper/pull/694)

Upgrade PyAV version to 11.* to support Python3.12.x (https://github.com/SYSTRAN/faster-whisper/pull/679)

Small bug fixes

• Illogical "Avoid computing higher temperatures on no_speech" (https://github.com/SYSTRAN/faster-whisper/pull/652)
• broken prompt_reset_on_temperature (https://github.com/SYSTRAN/faster-whisper/pull/604)
• Word timing tweaks (https://github.com/SYSTRAN/faster-whisper/pull/616)

New improvements from original OpenAI Whisper project

• Skip silence around hallucinations (https://github.com/SYSTRAN/faster-whisper/pull/646)
• Prevent infinite loop for out-of-bound timestamps in clip_timestamps (https://github.com/SYSTRAN/faster-whisper/pull/697)