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Add a disclaimer about lack of performance. Fixes #185
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Jeronymous committed Nov 25, 2024
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Several VAD methods are available: silero (default), auditok, auditok:v3.1
* When the language is not specified, the language probabilities are provided among the outputs.

**Disclaimer: Please note that this extension is intended for experimental purposes and may significantly impact performance. We are not responsible for any issues or inefficiencies that arise from its use.**

### Notes on other approaches

An alternative relevant approach to recovering word-level timestamps involves using wav2vec models that predict characters, as successfully implemented in [whisperX](https://github.com/m-bain/whisperX). However, these approaches have several drawbacks that are not present in approaches based on cross-attention weights such as `whisper_timestamped`. These drawbacks include:
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