Voice background error after installation: missing faster-whisper-base model

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
38/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Active
Tech stack
huggingface, linux, python
Domain
desktop, devops

Research direction

Start by reproducing the installation and voice-background error, then review the installation instructions and the model-loading path for faster-whisper-base. The reported workaround is hf download Systran/faster-whisper-base; done should mean a fresh installation can start voice background processing without this missing-model error.

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Description

I followed the installation instructions, but I was getting the following error:

voice background error: Cannot find an appropriate cached snapshot folder for the specified revision on the local disk and outgoing traffic has been disabled. To enable repo look-ups and downloads online, pass 'local_files_only=False' as input.

The problem was fixed after I downloaded fast-whisper-base using the following command:

hf download Systran/faster-whisper-base
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