diff --git a/app/ipc/ipc_main.ts b/app/ipc/ipc_main.ts
index a1d3c7e5..2abec826 100644
--- a/app/ipc/ipc_main.ts
+++ b/app/ipc/ipc_main.ts
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ import { setMenuBar, showMenuBar, showContextMenu } from '../main_process/menu';
 import { sendAll } from '../main_process/windowList';
 import { serverInfo } from '../main_process/server';
 import { ServerInfo } from '../main_process/types';
-import { logLine, logFilePath, LogLevel, LogSource } from '../src/util/log';
+import { logFilePath } from '../src/util/log';
 
 ipcMain.handle('open-file', (event, options) => {
   const win = BrowserWindow.fromWebContents(event.sender);
@@ -104,8 +104,3 @@ export function exportDebugLog(window: BrowserWindow): void {
 ipcMain.handle('get-home-path', () => {
   return app.getPath('home');
 });
-
-ipcMain.handle('log-line', (_event, source: LogSource, level: LogLevel, ...args: any[]) => {
-  assertSome(logLine);
-  logLine(source, level, ...args.map((x) => JSON.stringify(x)));
-});
diff --git a/app/main_process/index.ts b/app/main_process/index.ts
index 601d4fd1..1a578553 100644
--- a/app/main_process/index.ts
+++ b/app/main_process/index.ts
@@ -24,6 +24,14 @@ export const createWindow = (): void => {
     show: false,
   });
 
+  let dontSendLog = false;
+  window.webContents.on('console-message', (_e, level, message) => {
+    if (message == 'server stderr') dontSendLog = true;
+    logLine && !dontSendLog && logLine(LogSource.RendererProcess, NumericLogLevels[level], message);
+
+    if (message == 'console.groupEnd') dontSendLog = false;
+  });
+
   window.webContents.on('new-window', (event, url, frameName, disposition, options) => {
     if (frameName === 'modal') {
       event.preventDefault();
@@ -151,4 +159,4 @@ import './server';
 import { windowList } from './windowList';
 import { applyMenuBar, setMenuBar } from './menu';
 import { isRunningInTest } from '../src/util';
-import { initMainProcessLog } from '../src/util/log';
+import { LogSource, NumericLogLevels, initMainProcessLog, logLine } from '../src/util/log';
diff --git a/app/main_process/server.ts b/app/main_process/server.ts
index 85b53d45..9137da2e 100644
--- a/app/main_process/server.ts
+++ b/app/main_process/server.ts
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ import { app, dialog } from 'electron';
 import { publishServerInfo, publishServerStderr } from '../ipc/ipc_main';
 import { ServerInfo } from './types';
 import { isRunningInTest } from '../src/util';
+import { LogLevel, LogSource, logLine } from '../src/util/log';
 
 function findServer() {
   const possibilities = [
@@ -74,7 +75,7 @@ function startServer() {
     return;
   }
   serverProcess.stdout.on('data', (data: Buffer) => {
-    console.log('server-stdout', data.toString());
+    logLine && logLine(LogSource.ServerProcess, LogLevel.Log, data);
     try {
       const parsed_data: ServerStartingMessage | ServerStartedMessage = JSON.parse(data.toString());
       if (parsed_data.msg == 'server_starting') {
@@ -88,7 +89,7 @@ function startServer() {
   });
 
   serverProcess.stderr.on('data', (data: Buffer) => {
-    console.log(`server-stderr: \n${data}`);
+    logLine && logLine(LogSource.ServerProcess, LogLevel.Error, data);
     publishServerStderr(data.toString());
   });
 
diff --git a/app/scripts/dev.js b/app/scripts/dev.js
index 36eee4d9..2e3f5e79 100644
--- a/app/scripts/dev.js
+++ b/app/scripts/dev.js
@@ -1,14 +1,13 @@
-const { createServer, build, createLogger } = require('vite');
+const { createServer, build } = require('vite');
 const electronPath = require('electron');
 const { spawn } = require('child_process');
 const mode = (process.env.MODE = process.env.MODE || 'development');
-const LOG_LEVEL = 'warn';
 const sharedConfig = {
   mode,
   build: {
     watch: {},
   },
-  logLevel: LOG_LEVEL,
+  logLevel: 'warn',
 };
 
 const getWatcher = ({ name, configFile, writeBundle }) => {
@@ -29,10 +28,6 @@ const setupMainPackageWatcher = (viteDevServer) => {
     process.env.VITE_DEV_SERVER_URL = `${protocol}//${host}:${port}${path}`;
   }
 
-  const logger = createLogger(LOG_LEVEL, {
-    prefix: '[main]',
-  });
-
   let spawnProcess = null;
 
   return getWatcher({
@@ -44,18 +39,10 @@ const setupMainPackageWatcher = (viteDevServer) => {
         spawnProcess = null;
       }
 
-      spawnProcess = spawn(String(electronPath), [
-        `${dir}/start.cjs.js`,
-        `--remote-debugging-port=${process.env.DEBUGGER_PORT}`,
-      ]);
-
-      spawnProcess.stdout.on(
-        'data',
-        (d) => d.toString().trim() && logger.warn(d.toString(), { timestamp: true })
-      );
-      spawnProcess.stderr.on(
-        'data',
-        (d) => d.toString().trim() && logger.error(d.toString(), { timestamp: true })
+      spawnProcess = spawn(
+        String(electronPath),
+        [`${dir}/start.cjs.js`, `--remote-debugging-port=${process.env.DEBUGGER_PORT}`],
+        { stdio: 'inherit' }
       );
     },
   });
diff --git a/app/src/index.tsx b/app/src/index.tsx
index e8c20ad5..2da3faf1 100644
--- a/app/src/index.tsx
+++ b/app/src/index.tsx
@@ -4,11 +4,9 @@ import * as ReactDOM from 'react-dom';
 import './index.css';
 
 import App from './components/App';
-import { exportDebugLogsToDisk, initRendererLog } from './util/log';
+import { exportDebugLogsToDisk } from './util/log';
 import { subscribeExportDebugLog } from '../ipc/ipc_renderer';
 
-initRendererLog();
-
 subscribeExportDebugLog((event, mainProcessLogPath) => exportDebugLogsToDisk(mainProcessLogPath));
 
 const anyModule = module as any;
diff --git a/app/src/pages/LanguageSettings.tsx b/app/src/pages/LanguageSettings.tsx
index 88839b9c..0a491d5c 100644
--- a/app/src/pages/LanguageSettings.tsx
+++ b/app/src/pages/LanguageSettings.tsx
@@ -103,21 +103,23 @@ function ModelTable({
         isDefault={null}
         action={
           <Tooltip content={`downloading model ${Math.round(model.progress * 100)}%`}>
-            <HoverSwitcher
-              onClick={() => dispatch(cancelDownload(model.task_uuid))}
-              hoverChild={<IconButton icon={StopIcon} />}
-              defaultChild={
-                <Button appearance={'minimal'} padding={0}>
-                  <Circle
-                    style={{ height: majorScale(3) }}
-                    percent={model.progress * 100}
-                    strokeWidth={50}
-                    trailWidth={0}
-                    strokeLinecap={'butt'}
-                  />
-                </Button>
-              }
-            />
+            <Pane>
+              <HoverSwitcher
+                onClick={() => dispatch(cancelDownload(model.task_uuid))}
+                hoverChild={<IconButton icon={StopIcon} />}
+                defaultChild={
+                  <Button appearance={'minimal'} padding={0}>
+                    <Circle
+                      style={{ height: majorScale(3) }}
+                      percent={model.progress * 100}
+                      strokeWidth={50}
+                      trailWidth={0}
+                      strokeLinecap={'butt'}
+                    />
+                  </Button>
+                }
+              />
+            </Pane>
           </Tooltip>
         }
         key={model.model_id}
@@ -221,19 +223,19 @@ function HoverSwitcher({
   hoverChild: JSX.Element;
   defaultChild: JSX.Element;
 }): JSX.Element {
-  const [shownChild, setShownChild] = useState(defaultChild);
+  const [hover, setHover] = useState(false);
 
   return (
     <Pane
       {...switcherProps}
       onMouseLeave={() => {
-        setShownChild(defaultChild);
+        setHover(false);
       }}
       onMouseOver={() => {
-        setShownChild(hoverChild);
+        setHover(true);
       }}
     >
-      {shownChild}
+      {hover ? hoverChild : defaultChild}
     </Pane>
   );
 }
@@ -262,6 +264,16 @@ export function LanguageSettingsPage(): JSX.Element {
       <MainMaxWidthContainer>
         <BackButton id={'back' /* for tour */} />
 
+        <Heading marginTop={majorScale(3)} marginBottom={majorScale(2)} paddingLeft={majorScale(1)}>
+          Whisper Models for {language.lang}
+        </Heading>
+        <ModelTable
+          models={language.whisper_models}
+          lang={language.lang}
+          type={'whisper'}
+          id={'whisper_table'}
+        />
+
         <Heading marginTop={majorScale(3)} marginBottom={majorScale(2)} paddingLeft={majorScale(1)}>
           Transcription Models for {language.lang}
         </Heading>
diff --git a/app/src/pages/ModelManager.tsx b/app/src/pages/ModelManager.tsx
index db6410e2..08f278b8 100644
--- a/app/src/pages/ModelManager.tsx
+++ b/app/src/pages/ModelManager.tsx
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ export function ModelManagerPage(): JSX.Element {
           <Table.Head padding={0}>
             <Table.TextHeaderCell {...firstColumnProps}>Language</Table.TextHeaderCell>
             <Table.TextHeaderCell>Transcription Models</Table.TextHeaderCell>
+            <Table.TextHeaderCell>Whisper Models</Table.TextHeaderCell>
             <Table.TextHeaderCell {...lastColumnProps} />
           </Table.Head>
 
@@ -61,6 +62,11 @@ export function ModelManagerPage(): JSX.Element {
                   lang={lang.lang}
                   downloaded={downloaded}
                 />
+                <ModelNumberTextCell
+                  models={lang.whisper_models}
+                  lang={lang.lang}
+                  downloaded={downloaded}
+                />
                 <Table.Cell {...lastColumnProps}>
                   <Tooltip content={'manage language'}>
                     <Icon color={theme.colors.default} icon={ChevronRightIcon} />
diff --git a/app/src/state/models.ts b/app/src/state/models.ts
index 672f1e13..db36bf6b 100644
--- a/app/src/state/models.ts
+++ b/app/src/state/models.ts
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ export interface Model {
 export interface Language {
   lang: string;
   transcription_models: Model[];
+  whisper_models: Model[];
 }
 
 export type DownloadingModel = Model & {
diff --git a/app/src/util/log.ts b/app/src/util/log.ts
index d243528a..21459ef3 100644
--- a/app/src/util/log.ts
+++ b/app/src/util/log.ts
@@ -1,29 +1,41 @@
 import fs, { createWriteStream } from 'fs';
 import path from 'path';
 import JSZip from 'jszip';
-import { getHomePath, saveFile, sendLogLine } from '../../ipc/ipc_renderer';
+import { getHomePath, saveFile } from '../../ipc/ipc_renderer';
 import { isRunningInTest } from './index';
 import glob from 'glob';
 import { app } from 'electron';
 
 export enum LogLevel {
   Log,
-  Trace,
-  Debug,
   Info,
   Warn,
   Error,
-  GroupCollapsed,
-  GroupEnd,
 }
 
+export const NumericLogLevels = [LogLevel.Log, LogLevel.Info, LogLevel.Warn, LogLevel.Error];
+
 export enum LogSource {
   MainProcess,
   RendererProcess,
+  ServerProcess,
 }
 
 export let logFilePath: string | null = null;
-let oldLog: ((...args: any[]) => void) | null = null;
+
+const buffer: string[] = [];
+function write(str: string) {
+  buffer.push(str);
+
+  const try_fn = () => {
+    if (process.stdout.writableLength == 0) {
+      process.stdout.write(buffer.shift() || '');
+    } else {
+      setTimeout(try_fn, 10);
+    }
+  };
+  try_fn();
+}
 
 function log(file: number, source: LogSource, level: LogLevel, ...args: any[]) {
   const date = new Date().toISOString();
@@ -36,7 +48,23 @@ function log(file: number, source: LogSource, level: LogLevel, ...args: any[]) {
     level: level_str,
     args: string_args,
   });
-  if (oldLog !== null) oldLog(log_line);
+
+  const FgGreen = '\x1b[32m';
+  const FgBlue = '\x1b[34m';
+  const FgYellow = '\x1b[33m';
+  const Reset = '\x1b[0m';
+  const source_color = [FgGreen, FgBlue, FgYellow][source];
+
+  write(
+    args
+      .join('\n')
+      .split('\n')
+      .map(
+        (line) =>
+          `${source_color}[${source_str.substring(0, 4)}]${Reset} ${level_str.padEnd(5)} | ${line}`
+      )
+      .join('\n') + '\n'
+  );
   fs.writeSync(file, log_line + '\n');
   fs.fsyncSync(file);
 }
@@ -64,24 +92,15 @@ export function initMainProcessLog(): void {
   logFilePath = path.join(log_dir, fileName);
   const file = fs.openSync(logFilePath, 'w');
   console.log('Init logging into', logFilePath);
-  oldLog = console.log;
   console.log = (...args) => log(file, LogSource.MainProcess, LogLevel.Log, ...args);
-  console.trace = (...args) => log(file, LogSource.MainProcess, LogLevel.Trace, ...args);
-  console.debug = (...args) => log(file, LogSource.MainProcess, LogLevel.Debug, ...args);
+  console.trace = (...args) => log(file, LogSource.MainProcess, LogLevel.Log, ...args);
+  console.debug = (...args) => log(file, LogSource.MainProcess, LogLevel.Log, ...args);
   console.info = (...args) => log(file, LogSource.MainProcess, LogLevel.Info, ...args);
   console.warn = (...args) => log(file, LogSource.MainProcess, LogLevel.Warn, ...args);
   console.error = (...args) => log(file, LogSource.MainProcess, LogLevel.Error, ...args);
   logLine = (...args) => log(file, ...args);
-  const oldGroupCollapsed = console.groupCollapsed;
-  console.groupCollapsed = (...args) => {
-    log(file, LogSource.MainProcess, LogLevel.GroupCollapsed, ...args);
-    oldGroupCollapsed(...args);
-  };
-  const oldGroupEnd = console.groupEnd;
-  console.groupEnd = (...args) => {
-    log(file, LogSource.MainProcess, LogLevel.GroupEnd, ...args);
-    oldGroupEnd(...args);
-  };
+  console.groupCollapsed = () => {};
+  console.groupEnd = () => {};
 }
 
 export async function exportDebugLogsToDisk(file: string): Promise<void> {
@@ -108,25 +127,3 @@ export async function exportDebugLogsToDisk(file: string): Promise<void> {
       .on('error', reject);
   });
 }
-
-type KeyOfType<T, V> = keyof {
-  [P in keyof T as T[P] extends V ? P : never]: any;
-};
-
-function _mapLogFn(key: KeyOfType<typeof console, (...args: any[]) => void>, level: LogLevel) {
-  const _oldFn: (...args: any[]) => void = console[key];
-  console[key] = (...args: any[]) => {
-    _oldFn(...args);
-    sendLogLine(level, ...args);
-  };
-}
-export function initRendererLog(): void {
-  _mapLogFn('log', LogLevel.Log);
-  _mapLogFn('trace', LogLevel.Trace);
-  _mapLogFn('debug', LogLevel.Debug);
-  _mapLogFn('info', LogLevel.Info);
-  _mapLogFn('warn', LogLevel.Warn);
-  _mapLogFn('error', LogLevel.Error);
-  _mapLogFn('groupCollapsed', LogLevel.GroupCollapsed);
-  _mapLogFn('groupEnd', LogLevel.GroupEnd);
-}
diff --git a/server/app/models.py b/server/app/models.py
index 0f0bcbc6..139805b3 100644
--- a/server/app/models.py
+++ b/server/app/models.py
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
 from urllib.parse import urlparse
 from zipfile import ZipFile
 
+import huggingface_hub
 import requests
 import yaml
 from vosk import Model
@@ -40,7 +41,7 @@ class ModelDescription:
     size: str
     type: str
     lang: str
-    compressed: bool = field(default=False)
+    download_type: str = field(default=False)
     model_id: str = field(default=None)
 
     def __post_init__(self):
@@ -58,9 +59,10 @@ def is_downloaded(self) -> bool:
 class Language:
     lang: str
     transcription_models: List[ModelDescription] = field(default_factory=list)
+    whisper_models: List[ModelDescription] = field(default_factory=list)
 
     def all_models(self):
-        return self.transcription_models
+        return self.transcription_models + self.whisper_models
 
 
 class ModelDefaultDict(defaultdict):
@@ -81,6 +83,8 @@ def __init__(self):
                     models[model_description.model_id] = model_description
                     if model["type"] == "transcription":
                         languages[lang].transcription_models.append(model_description)
+                    elif model["type"] == "whisper":
+                        languages[lang].whisper_models.append(model_description)
         self.available = dict(languages)
         self.model_descriptions = models
 
@@ -122,38 +126,61 @@ def get(self, model_id: str) -> Union[Model]:
     def download(self, model_id: str, task_uuid: str):
         task: DownloadModelTask = tasks.get(task_uuid)
         model = self.get_model_description(model_id)
-        with tempfile.TemporaryFile(dir=CACHE_DIR) as f:
-            response = requests.get(model.url, stream=True)
-            task.total = int(response.headers.get("content-length"))
-            task.state = DownloadModelState.DOWNLOADING
-
-            for data in response.iter_content(
-                chunk_size=max(int(task.total / 1000), 1024 * 1024)
-            ):
-                task.add_progress(len(data))
-
-                f.write(data)
-                if task.canceled:
-                    return
-
-            task.state = DownloadModelState.EXTRACTING
-            if model.compressed:
-                with ZipFile(f) as archive:
-                    target_dir = model.path()
-                    for info in archive.infolist():
-                        if info.is_dir():
-                            continue
-                        path = target_dir / Path("/".join(info.filename.split("/")[1:]))
-                        path.parent.mkdir(exist_ok=True, parents=True)
-
-                        source = archive.open(info.filename)
-                        target = open(path, "wb")
-                        with source, target:
-                            shutil.copyfileobj(source, target)
-            else:
-                f.seek(0)
-                with open(model.path(), "wb") as target:
-                    shutil.copyfileobj(f, target)
+
+        if model.download_type.startswith("http"):
+            with tempfile.TemporaryFile(dir=CACHE_DIR) as f:
+                response = requests.get(model.url, stream=True)
+                task.total = int(response.headers.get("content-length"))
+                task.state = DownloadModelState.DOWNLOADING
+
+                for data in response.iter_content(
+                    chunk_size=max(int(task.total / 1000), 1024 * 1024)
+                ):
+                    task.add_progress(len(data))
+
+                    f.write(data)
+                    if task.canceled:
+                        return
+
+                task.state = DownloadModelState.EXTRACTING
+                if model.download_type.endswith("+zip"):
+                    with ZipFile(f) as archive:
+                        target_dir = model.path()
+                        for info in archive.infolist():
+                            if info.is_dir():
+                                continue
+                            path = target_dir / Path(
+                                "/".join(info.filename.split("/")[1:])
+                            )
+                            path.parent.mkdir(exist_ok=True, parents=True)
+
+                            source = archive.open(info.filename)
+                            target = open(path, "wb")
+                            with source, target:
+                                shutil.copyfileobj(source, target)
+                else:
+                    f.seek(0)
+                    with open(model.path(), "wb") as target:
+                        shutil.copyfileobj(f, target)
+        elif model.download_type == "huggingface":
+            api = huggingface_hub.HfApi()
+            repo_info = api.repo_info(model.url, files_metadata=True)
+            task.total = sum(f.size for f in repo_info.siblings)
+            with tempfile.TemporaryDirectory(dir=CACHE_DIR) as dir:
+                for f in repo_info.siblings:
+                    url = huggingface_hub.hf_hub_url(model.url, f.rfilename)
+                    with open(Path(dir) / f.rfilename, "wb") as file:
+                        task.state = DownloadModelState.DOWNLOADING
+                        response = requests.get(url, stream=True)
+                        for data in response.iter_content(
+                            chunk_size=max(int(task.total / 1000), 1024 * 1024)
+                        ):
+                            task.add_progress(len(data))
+
+                            file.write(data)
+                            if task.canceled:
+                                return
+                shutil.copytree(dir, model.path())
 
         task.state = DownloadModelState.DONE
 
diff --git a/server/app/models.yml b/server/app/models.yml
index 65659f2a..0560f6cd 100644
--- a/server/app/models.yml
+++ b/server/app/models.yml
@@ -1,253 +1,377 @@
 # this file is autogenerated by the ../scripts/generate_models_list.py script.
 # do not edit manually!
 
+Universal:
+- name: whisper-tiny
+  url: guillaumekln/faster-whisper-tiny
+  description: Whisper model doing both transcription and punctuation reconstruction
+  size: 74M
+  type: whisper
+  download_type: huggingface
+- name: whisper-base
+  url: guillaumekln/faster-whisper-base
+  description: Whisper model doing both transcription and punctuation reconstruction
+  size: 141M
+  type: whisper
+  download_type: huggingface
+- name: whisper-small
+  url: guillaumekln/faster-whisper-small
+  description: Whisper model doing both transcription and punctuation reconstruction
+  size: 463M
+  type: whisper
+  download_type: huggingface
+- name: whisper-medium
+  url: guillaumekln/faster-whisper-medium
+  description: Whisper model doing both transcription and punctuation reconstruction
+  size: 1459M
+  type: whisper
+  download_type: huggingface
+- name: whisper-large-v1
+  url: guillaumekln/faster-whisper-large-v1
+  description: Whisper model doing both transcription and punctuation reconstruction
+  size: 2946M
+  type: whisper
+  download_type: huggingface
+- name: whisper-large-v2
+  url: guillaumekln/faster-whisper-large-v2
+  description: Whisper model doing both transcription and punctuation reconstruction
+  size: 2946M
+  type: whisper
+  download_type: huggingface
 English:
+- name: whisper-tiny.en
+  url: guillaumekln/faster-whisper-tiny.en
+  description: Whisper model doing both transcription and punctuation reconstruction
+  size: 74M
+  type: whisper
+  download_type: huggingface
+- name: whisper-base.en
+  url: guillaumekln/faster-whisper-base.en
+  description: Whisper model doing both transcription and punctuation reconstruction
+  size: 140M
+  type: whisper
+  download_type: huggingface
+- name: whisper-small.en
+  url: guillaumekln/faster-whisper-small.en
+  description: Whisper model doing both transcription and punctuation reconstruction
+  size: 463M
+  type: whisper
+  download_type: huggingface
+- name: whisper-medium.en
+  url: guillaumekln/faster-whisper-medium.en
+  description: Whisper model doing both transcription and punctuation reconstruction
+  size: 1459M
+  type: whisper
+  download_type: huggingface
 - name: small
   url: https://alphacephei.com/vosk/models/vosk-model-small-en-us-0.15.zip
   description: Lightweight wideband model for Android and RPi
   size: 40M
   type: transcription
-  compressed: true
+  download_type: http+zip
 - name: big
   url: https://alphacephei.com/vosk/models/vosk-model-en-us-0.22.zip
   description: Accurate generic US English model
   size: 1.8G
   type: transcription
-  compressed: true
+  download_type: http+zip
 - name: lgraph
   url: https://alphacephei.com/vosk/models/vosk-model-en-us-0.22-lgraph.zip
   description: Big US English model with dynamic graph
   size: 128M
   type: transcription
-  compressed: true
+  download_type: http+zip
+- name: big-2
+  url: https://alphacephei.com/vosk/models/vosk-model-en-us-0.42-gigaspeech.zip
+  description: Accurate generic US English model trained by Kaldi on <a href="http://kaldi-asr.org/models/m14">Gigaspeech</a>.
+    Mostly for podcasts, not for telephony
+  size: 2.3G
+  type: transcription
+  download_type: http+zip
+- name: big-3
+  url: https://alphacephei.com/vosk/models/vosk-model-en-us-daanzu-20200905.zip
+  description: Wideband model for dictation from <a href="https://github.com/daanzu/kaldi-active-grammar">Kaldi-active-grammar</a>
+    project
+  size: 1.0G
+  type: transcription
+  download_type: http+zip
+- name: lgraph-2
+  url: https://alphacephei.com/vosk/models/vosk-model-en-us-daanzu-20200905-lgraph.zip
+  description: Wideband model for dictation from <a href="https://github.com/daanzu/kaldi-active-grammar">Kaldi-active-grammar</a>
+    project with configurable graph
+  size: 129M
+  type: transcription
+  download_type: http+zip
+- name: big-4
+  url: https://alphacephei.com/vosk/models/vosk-model-en-us-librispeech-0.2.zip
+  description: Repackaged Librispeech model from <a href="https://kaldi-asr.org/models/m13">Kaldi</a>,
+    not very accurate
+  size: 845M
+  type: transcription
+  download_type: http+zip
+- name: small-2
+  url: https://alphacephei.com/vosk/models/vosk-model-small-en-us-zamia-0.5.zip
+  description: Repackaged Zamia model f_250, mainly for research
+  size: 49M
+  type: transcription
+  download_type: http+zip
+- name: big-5
+  url: https://alphacephei.com/vosk/models/vosk-model-en-us-aspire-0.2.zip
+  description: Kaldi original ASPIRE model, not very accurate
+  size: 1.4G
+  type: transcription
+  download_type: http+zip
+- name: big-6
+  url: https://alphacephei.com/vosk/models/vosk-model-en-us-0.21.zip
+  description: Wideband model previous generation
+  size: 1.6G
+  type: transcription
+  download_type: http+zip
 Indian English:
 - name: big
   url: https://alphacephei.com/vosk/models/vosk-model-en-in-0.5.zip
   description: Generic Indian English model for telecom and broadcast
   size: 1G
   type: transcription
-  compressed: true
+  download_type: http+zip
 - name: small
   url: https://alphacephei.com/vosk/models/vosk-model-small-en-in-0.4.zip
   description: Lightweight Indian English model for mobile applications
   size: 36M
   type: transcription
-  compressed: true
+  download_type: http+zip
 Chinese:
 - name: small
   url: https://alphacephei.com/vosk/models/vosk-model-small-cn-0.22.zip
   description: Lightweight model for Android and RPi
   size: 42M
   type: transcription
-  compressed: true
+  download_type: http+zip
 - name: big
   url: https://alphacephei.com/vosk/models/vosk-model-cn-0.22.zip
   description: Big generic Chinese model for server processing
   size: 1.3G
   type: transcription
-  compressed: true
-Chinese Other:
-- name: big
+  download_type: http+zip
+- name: big-2
   url: https://alphacephei.com/vosk/models/vosk-model-cn-kaldi-multicn-0.15.zip
   description: Original Wideband Kaldi multi-cn model from <a href="https://kaldi-asr.org/models/m11">Kaldi</a>
     with Vosk LM
   size: 1.5G
   type: transcription
-  compressed: true
+  download_type: http+zip
 Russian:
 - name: big
   url: https://alphacephei.com/vosk/models/vosk-model-ru-0.42.zip
   description: Big mixed band Russian model for servers
   size: 1.8G
   type: transcription
-  compressed: true
+  download_type: http+zip
 - name: small
   url: https://alphacephei.com/vosk/models/vosk-model-small-ru-0.22.zip
   description: Lightweight wideband model for Android/iOS and RPi
   size: 45M
   type: transcription
-  compressed: true
-Russian Other:
-- name: big
+  download_type: http+zip
+- name: big-2
   url: https://alphacephei.com/vosk/models/vosk-model-ru-0.22.zip
   description: Big mixed band Russian model for servers
   size: 1.5G
   type: transcription
-  compressed: true
-- name: big-2
+  download_type: http+zip
+- name: big-3
   url: https://alphacephei.com/vosk/models/vosk-model-ru-0.10.zip
   description: Big narrowband Russian model for servers
   size: 2.5G
   type: transcription
-  compressed: true
+  download_type: http+zip
 French:
 - name: small
   url: https://alphacephei.com/vosk/models/vosk-model-small-fr-0.22.zip
   description: Lightweight wideband model for Android/iOS and RPi
   size: 41M
   type: transcription
-  compressed: true
+  download_type: http+zip
 - name: big
   url: https://alphacephei.com/vosk/models/vosk-model-fr-0.22.zip
   description: Big accurate model for servers
   size: 1.4G
   type: transcription
-  compressed: true
-French Other:
-- name: small
+  download_type: http+zip
+- name: small-2
   url: https://alphacephei.com/vosk/models/vosk-model-small-fr-pguyot-0.3.zip
   description: Lightweight wideband model for Android and RPi trained by <a href="https://github.com/pguyot/zamia-speech/releases">Paul
     Guyot</a>
   size: 39M
   type: transcription
-  compressed: true
+  download_type: http+zip
 - name: linto-2.2
   url: https://alphacephei.com/vosk/models/vosk-model-fr-0.6-linto-2.2.0.zip
   description: Model from <a href="https://doc.linto.ai/#/services/linstt">LINTO</a>
     project
   size: 1.5G
   type: transcription
-  compressed: true
+  download_type: http+zip
 German:
 - name: big
   url: https://alphacephei.com/vosk/models/vosk-model-de-0.21.zip
   description: Big German model for telephony and server
   size: 1.9G
   type: transcription
-  compressed: true
+  download_type: http+zip
 - name: big-2
   url: https://alphacephei.com/vosk/models/vosk-model-de-tuda-0.6-900k.zip
   description: Latest big wideband model from <a href="https://github.com/uhh-lt/kaldi-tuda-de">Tuda-DE</a>
     project
   size: 4.4G
   type: transcription
-  compressed: true
+  download_type: http+zip
 - name: small
+  url: https://alphacephei.com/vosk/models/vosk-model-small-de-zamia-0.3.zip
+  description: Zamia f_250 small model repackaged (not recommended)
+  size: 49M
+  type: transcription
+  download_type: http+zip
+- name: small-2
   url: https://alphacephei.com/vosk/models/vosk-model-small-de-0.15.zip
   description: Lightweight wideband model for Android and RPi
   size: 45M
   type: transcription
-  compressed: true
+  download_type: http+zip
 Spanish:
 - name: small
   url: https://alphacephei.com/vosk/models/vosk-model-small-es-0.42.zip
   description: Lightweight wideband model for Android and RPi
   size: 39M
   type: transcription
-  compressed: true
+  download_type: http+zip
 - name: big
   url: https://alphacephei.com/vosk/models/vosk-model-es-0.42.zip
   description: Big model for Spanish
   size: 1.4G
   type: transcription
-  compressed: true
+  download_type: http+zip
 Portuguese/Brazilian Portuguese:
 - name: small
   url: https://alphacephei.com/vosk/models/vosk-model-small-pt-0.3.zip
   description: Lightweight wideband model for Android and RPi
   size: 31M
   type: transcription
-  compressed: true
+  download_type: http+zip
 - name: big
   url: https://alphacephei.com/vosk/models/vosk-model-pt-fb-v0.1.1-20220516_2113.zip
   description: Big model from <a href="https://gitlab.com/fb-resources/kaldi-br">FalaBrazil</a>
   size: 1.6G
   type: transcription
-  compressed: true
+  download_type: http+zip
+Greek:
+- name: big
+  url: https://alphacephei.com/vosk/models/vosk-model-el-gr-0.7.zip
+  description: Big narrowband Greek model for server processing, not extremely accurate
+    though
+  size: 1.1G
+  type: transcription
+  download_type: http+zip
 Turkish:
 - name: small
   url: https://alphacephei.com/vosk/models/vosk-model-small-tr-0.3.zip
   description: Lightweight wideband model for Android and RPi
   size: 35M
   type: transcription
-  compressed: true
+  download_type: http+zip
 Vietnamese:
 - name: small
   url: https://alphacephei.com/vosk/models/vosk-model-small-vn-0.4.zip
   description: Lightweight Vietnamese model
   size: 32M
   type: transcription
-  compressed: true
+  download_type: http+zip
 - name: big
   url: https://alphacephei.com/vosk/models/vosk-model-vn-0.4.zip
   description: Bigger Vietnamese model for server
   size: 78M
   type: transcription
-  compressed: true
+  download_type: http+zip
 Italian:
 - name: small
   url: https://alphacephei.com/vosk/models/vosk-model-small-it-0.22.zip
   description: Lightweight model for Android and RPi
   size: 48M
   type: transcription
-  compressed: true
+  download_type: http+zip
 - name: big
   url: https://alphacephei.com/vosk/models/vosk-model-it-0.22.zip
   description: Big generic Italian model for servers
   size: 1.2G
   type: transcription
-  compressed: true
+  download_type: http+zip
 Dutch:
 - name: small
   url: https://alphacephei.com/vosk/models/vosk-model-small-nl-0.22.zip
   description: Lightweight model for Dutch
   size: 39M
   type: transcription
-  compressed: true
-Dutch Other:
+  download_type: http+zip
 - name: big
   url: https://alphacephei.com/vosk/models/vosk-model-nl-spraakherkenning-0.6.zip
   description: Medium Dutch model from <a href="https://github.com/opensource-spraakherkenning-nl/Kaldi_NL">Kaldi_NL</a>
   size: 860M
   type: transcription
-  compressed: true
+  download_type: http+zip
 - name: lgraph
   url: https://alphacephei.com/vosk/models/vosk-model-nl-spraakherkenning-0.6-lgraph.zip
   description: Smaller model with dynamic graph
   size: 100M
   type: transcription
-  compressed: true
+  download_type: http+zip
 Catalan:
 - name: small
   url: https://alphacephei.com/vosk/models/vosk-model-small-ca-0.4.zip
   description: Lightweight wideband model for Android and RPi for Catalan
   size: 42M
   type: transcription
-  compressed: true
+  download_type: http+zip
 Arabic:
 - name: big
   url: https://alphacephei.com/vosk/models/vosk-model-ar-mgb2-0.4.zip
   description: Repackaged Arabic model trained on MGB2 dataset from <a href="https://kaldi-asr.org/models/m9">Kaldi</a>
   size: 318M
   type: transcription
-  compressed: true
+  download_type: http+zip
 - name: big-2
   url: https://alphacephei.com/vosk/models/vosk-model-ar-0.22-linto-1.1.0.zip
   description: Big model from <a href="https://doc.linto.ai/#/services/linstt">LINTO</a>
     project
   size: 1.3G
   type: transcription
-  compressed: true
+  download_type: http+zip
 Farsi:
 - name: small
   url: https://alphacephei.com/vosk/models/vosk-model-small-fa-0.4.zip
   description: Lightweight wideband model for Android and RPi for Farsi (Persian)
   size: 47M
   type: transcription
-  compressed: true
+  download_type: http+zip
+- name: big
+  url: https://alphacephei.com/vosk/models/vosk-model-fa-0.5.zip
+  description: Model with large vocabulary, not yet accurate but better than before
+    (Persian)
+  size: 1G
+  type: transcription
+  download_type: http+zip
 - name: small-2
   url: https://alphacephei.com/vosk/models/vosk-model-small-fa-0.5.zip
   description: Bigger small model for desktop application (Persian)
   size: 60M
   type: transcription
-  compressed: true
+  download_type: http+zip
 Filipino:
 - name: big
   url: https://alphacephei.com/vosk/models/vosk-model-tl-ph-generic-0.6.zip
   description: Medium wideband model for Filipino (Tagalog) by <a href="https://github.com/feddybear/flipside_ph">feddybear</a>
   size: 320M
   type: transcription
-  compressed: true
+  download_type: http+zip
 Ukrainian:
 - name: small
   url: https://alphacephei.com/vosk/models/vosk-model-small-uk-v3-nano.zip
@@ -255,41 +379,41 @@ Ukrainian:
     Recognition for Ukrainian</a>
   size: 73M
   type: transcription
-  compressed: true
+  download_type: http+zip
 - name: small-2
   url: https://alphacephei.com/vosk/models/vosk-model-small-uk-v3-small.zip
   description: Small model from <a href="https://github.com/egorsmkv/speech-recognition-uk">Speech
     Recognition for Ukrainian</a>
   size: 133M
   type: transcription
-  compressed: true
+  download_type: http+zip
 - name: big
   url: https://alphacephei.com/vosk/models/vosk-model-uk-v3.zip
   description: Bigger model from <a href="https://github.com/egorsmkv/speech-recognition-uk">Speech
     Recognition for Ukrainian</a>
   size: 343M
   type: transcription
-  compressed: true
+  download_type: http+zip
 - name: lgraph
   url: https://alphacephei.com/vosk/models/vosk-model-uk-v3-lgraph.zip
   description: Big dynamic model from <a href="https://github.com/egorsmkv/speech-recognition-uk">Speech
     Recognition for Ukrainian</a>
   size: 325M
   type: transcription
-  compressed: true
+  download_type: http+zip
 Kazakh:
 - name: small
   url: https://alphacephei.com/vosk/models/vosk-model-small-kz-0.15.zip
   description: Small mobile model from <a href="https://github.com/IS2AI/ISSAI_SAIDA_Kazakh_ASR">SAIDA_Kazakh</a>
   size: 42M
   type: transcription
-  compressed: true
+  download_type: http+zip
 - name: big
   url: https://alphacephei.com/vosk/models/vosk-model-kz-0.15.zip
   description: Bigger wideband model <a href="https://github.com/IS2AI/ISSAI_SAIDA_Kazakh_ASR">SAIDA_Kazakh</a>
   size: 378M
   type: transcription
-  compressed: true
+  download_type: http+zip
 Swedish:
 - name: small
   url: https://alphacephei.com/vosk/models/vosk-model-small-sv-rhasspy-0.15.zip
@@ -297,68 +421,68 @@ Swedish:
     project</a>
   size: 289M
   type: transcription
-  compressed: true
+  download_type: http+zip
 Japanese:
 - name: small
   url: https://alphacephei.com/vosk/models/vosk-model-small-ja-0.22.zip
   description: Lightweight wideband model for Japanese
   size: 48M
   type: transcription
-  compressed: true
+  download_type: http+zip
 - name: big
   url: https://alphacephei.com/vosk/models/vosk-model-ja-0.22.zip
   description: Big model for Japanese
   size: 1Gb
   type: transcription
-  compressed: true
+  download_type: http+zip
 Esperanto:
 - name: small
   url: https://alphacephei.com/vosk/models/vosk-model-small-eo-0.42.zip
   description: Lightweight model for Esperanto
   size: 42M
   type: transcription
-  compressed: true
+  download_type: http+zip
 Hindi:
 - name: small
   url: https://alphacephei.com/vosk/models/vosk-model-small-hi-0.22.zip
   description: Lightweight model for Hindi
   size: 42M
   type: transcription
-  compressed: true
+  download_type: http+zip
 - name: big
   url: https://alphacephei.com/vosk/models/vosk-model-hi-0.22.zip
   description: Big accurate model for servers
   size: 1.5Gb
   type: transcription
-  compressed: true
+  download_type: http+zip
 Czech:
 - name: small
   url: https://alphacephei.com/vosk/models/vosk-model-small-cs-0.4-rhasspy.zip
   description: Lightweight model for Czech from Rhasspy project
   size: 44M
   type: transcription
-  compressed: true
+  download_type: http+zip
 Polish:
 - name: small
   url: https://alphacephei.com/vosk/models/vosk-model-small-pl-0.22.zip
   description: Lightweight model for Polish
   size: 50M
   type: transcription
-  compressed: true
+  download_type: http+zip
 Uzbek:
 - name: small
   url: https://alphacephei.com/vosk/models/vosk-model-small-uz-0.22.zip
   description: Lightweight model for Uzbek
   size: 49M
   type: transcription
-  compressed: true
+  download_type: http+zip
 Korean:
 - name: small
   url: https://alphacephei.com/vosk/models/vosk-model-small-ko-0.22.zip
   description: Lightweight model for Korean
   size: 82M
   type: transcription
-  compressed: true
+  download_type: http+zip
 Breton:
 - name: big
   url: https://alphacephei.com/vosk/models/vosk-model-br-0.8.zip
@@ -366,4 +490,4 @@ Breton:
     project
   size: 70M
   type: transcription
-  compressed: true
+  download_type: http+zip
diff --git a/server/scripts/generate_models_list.py b/server/scripts/generate_models_list.py
index 2d3737ef..2092a5d6 100644
--- a/server/scripts/generate_models_list.py
+++ b/server/scripts/generate_models_list.py
@@ -1,12 +1,45 @@
 from collections import defaultdict
 from pathlib import Path
 
+import huggingface_hub
 import requests
 import yaml
 from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
 
+WHISPER_MODELS = {
+    "tiny": "guillaumekln/faster-whisper-tiny",
+    "base": "guillaumekln/faster-whisper-base",
+    "small": "guillaumekln/faster-whisper-small",
+    "medium": "guillaumekln/faster-whisper-medium",
+    "large-v1": "guillaumekln/faster-whisper-large-v1",
+    "large-v2": "guillaumekln/faster-whisper-large-v2",
+    "tiny.en": "guillaumekln/faster-whisper-tiny.en",
+    "base.en": "guillaumekln/faster-whisper-base.en",
+    "small.en": "guillaumekln/faster-whisper-small.en",
+    "medium.en": "guillaumekln/faster-whisper-medium.en",
+}
+
 HARDCODED_MODELS = []
 
+models = []
+
+api = huggingface_hub.HfApi()
+for name, url in WHISPER_MODELS.items():
+    repo_info = api.repo_info(url, files_metadata=True)
+    models.append(
+        {
+            "lang": "English" if name.endswith(".en") else "Universal",
+            "name": f"whisper-{name}",
+            "url": url,
+            "description": "Whisper model doing both transcription and punctuation reconstruction",
+            "size": f"{int(sum(f.size for f in repo_info.siblings) / 1024 / 1024)}M",
+            "type": "whisper",
+            "download_type": "huggingface",
+        },
+    )
+
+models.extend(HARDCODED_MODELS)
+
 r = requests.get("https://alphacephei.com/vosk/models")
 assert r.status_code == 200
 soup = BeautifulSoup(r.content, "html.parser")
@@ -14,8 +47,6 @@
 
 columns = [x.text for x in table.find_all("th")]
 rows = table.find("tbody").find_all("tr")
-
-models = HARDCODED_MODELS
 current_lang = None
 for row in rows:
     if strong := row.find("strong"):
@@ -26,8 +57,7 @@
         ), "no previous language heading found, probably the format changed :("
         raw = {k: v for k, v in zip(columns, row.find_all("td"))}
 
-        if current_lang == "English Other" or "not" in raw["Notes"].text.lower():
-            continue
+        current_lang = current_lang.replace("Other", "").strip()
 
         if current_lang == "Speaker identification model":
             continue
@@ -46,7 +76,7 @@
             description=raw["Notes"].decode_contents(),
             size=raw["Size"].text,
             type="transcription",
-            compressed=True,
+            download_type="http+zip",
         )
         models += [model]