feat: allow passing specific revision to download (#1292)

faster_whisper/transcribe.py

@@ -596,6 +596,7 @@ class WhisperModel:
         download_root: Optional[str] = None,
         local_files_only: bool = False,
         files: dict = None,
+        revision: Optional[str] = None,
         **model_kwargs,
     ):
         """Initializes the Whisper model.
@@ -627,6 +628,9 @@ class WhisperModel:
           files: Load model files from the memory. This argument is a dictionary mapping file names
             to file contents as file-like or bytes objects. If this is set, model_path acts as an
             identifier for this model.
+          revision:
+            An optional Git revision id which can be a branch name, a tag, or a
+            commit hash.
         """
         self.logger = get_logger()
 
@@ -642,6 +646,7 @@ class WhisperModel:
                 model_size_or_path,
                 local_files_only=local_files_only,
                 cache_dir=download_root,
+                revision=revision,
             )
 
         self.model = ctranslate2.models.Whisper(

faster_whisper/utils.py

@@ -51,6 +51,7 @@ def download_model(
     output_dir: Optional[str] = None,
     local_files_only: bool = False,
     cache_dir: Optional[str] = None,
+    revision: Optional[str] = None,
 ):
     """Downloads a CTranslate2 Whisper model from the Hugging Face Hub.
 
@@ -65,6 +66,8 @@ def download_model(
       local_files_only:  If True, avoid downloading the file and return the path to the local
         cached file if it exists.
       cache_dir: Path to the folder where cached files are stored.
+      revision: An optional Git revision id which can be a branch name, a tag, or a
+            commit hash.
 
     Returns:
       The path to the downloaded model.
@@ -94,6 +97,7 @@ def download_model(
         "local_files_only": local_files_only,
         "allow_patterns": allow_patterns,
         "tqdm_class": disabled_tqdm,
+        "revision": revision,
     }
 
     if output_dir is not None: