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Software health reportschema 0.34.0 · metrics 2.10.0 · 2026-09-16 19:39 UTC

m-bain / whisperX

WhisperX: Automatic Speech Recognition with Word-level Timestamps (& Diarization)

PythonBSD-2-Clause★ 24,069 stars⑂ 2,423 forkssince Dec 2022View on GitHub ↗
KindCommand-line toolLibraryhow this is determined
#asr#speech#speech-recognition#speech-to-text#whisper

m-bain/whisperX holds a health index of 78 out of 100, placing it in the Good band. It scores highest on Community & Adoption (81/100) and lowest on Security (52/100). It was last updated 17 days ago. 2 contributors account for most of its recent work.

78
overall / 100
Good

Software health index

Metrics are grouped into weighted categories on one standardized 1–100 scale. Overall starts as their weighted mean, calibrated against the distribution of the public record so bands carry percentile meaning; when public evidence triggers the High-Risk Jurisdiction Policy, the rating is adjusted and receives an At Risk ceiling of 34.

78
Exceptional93-100The record's top tier (≈ top 5%); essentially all checked criteria met
Excellent80-92Strong across the board; minor gaps
Good65-79Healthy; gaps are limited and manageable
Moderate50-64Acceptable with notable gaps; review recommended
Weak35-49Material weaknesses across several areas
At Risk20-34Significant weaknesses; adoption warrants caution
Critical1-19Severe problems (abandoned, single-maintainer, no hygiene)
VitalityCommunity &AdoptionSustainability &GovernanceEngineeringQualitySecurityAI Readiness

Score profile

Each axis is a category. The shape matters more than the average — a healthy subject fills the whole shape, while a spike-and-crater profile means strength in one dimension is masking risk in another.

The weighted overall 67 is calibrated to 78 on the published index scale (record calibration 2026-08-02).

Ownership

Max BainPersonal account
787 followers31 public repossince Mar 2018

This repository is owned by a personal account. A single-owner project carries more continuity risk than an organization-backed one.

Package ecosystems

RegistryPackageVersionDownloads / moVersionsLast publish
PyPIwhisperx3.8.61,503,39244114 days ago

Metrics by category

Vitality

Is the project alive — is code being written and are releases shipping?

72Good · 21% of overall

Development activity

60Moderate
How it's scored
28.8/36Push recency — last push 17 days ago
11.1/36Commit cadence — 16/52 weeks with commits
16.8/18Commit volume — 74 commits in the last year
3/10OpenSSF Scorecard: Maintained — 2 commit(s) and 2 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 3
Inputs used
commits_last_year74
human_commit_share0.99
days_since_last_push17
active_weeks_last_year16

Release discipline

90Excellent
How it's scored
27/27Ships releases — 44 releases published
36/36Release recency — latest release 82 days ago
27/27Release cadence — a release every ~12 days
0/10OpenSSF Scorecard: Signed-Releases — Project has not signed or included provenance with any releases.
Inputs used
releases_count44
latest_release_tag3.8.7rc1
releases_from_tagsno
days_since_latest_release82
mean_days_between_releases12

Community & Adoption

Does the project have users, downloads, attention, and a welcoming setup for contributors?

81Excellent · 17% of overall

Popularity & adoption

97Exceptional
How it's scored
60/60Stars — 24,069 stars
25/25Forks — 2,423 forks
12.3/15Watchers — 161 watchers
Inputs used
forks2,423
stars24,069
watchers161
growth_stateunverified
growth_factor_pct100
growth_unverified_reasonwindow_too_short

Community health

50Moderate
How it's scored
22.5/22.5README
22.5/22.5License — recognized license (BSD-2-Clause)
0/18CONTRIBUTING guide
0/13.5Code of conduct
0/7.2Issue template
0/6.3PR template
Inputs used
has_readmeyes
has_licenseyes
readme_badges8
has_contributingno
has_issue_templateno
has_code_of_conductno
readme_badge_servicesshields.io
has_pull_request_templateno

Ecosystem adoption (downloads)

100Exceptional
How it's scored
80/80Monthly downloads — 1,503,392 downloads/month across pypi
0/20Registry dependents — not reported by this ecosystem
Inputs used
packageswhisperx
dependents—
ecosystemspypi
total_downloads—
monthly_downloads1,503,392
unverified_packages_excluded—
Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Registry dependents. Remaining weights renormalized.

Sustainability & Governance

Will the project survive its people — bus factor, responsiveness, who backs it, and package upkeep?

71Good · 23% of overall

Maintainer resilience (bus factor)

62Moderate
How it's scored
25.2/54Bus factor — 2 contributor(s) cover half of all commits
12.9/22.5Commit distribution — top contributor authored 42% of commits
13.5/13.5Contributor breadth — 99 contributors
10/10OpenSSF Scorecard: Contributors — project has 6 contributing companies or organizations
Inputs used
bus_factor2
contributors_sampled99
top_contributor_share0.425

Issue & PR responsiveness

62Moderate
How it's scored
34.4/42Issue resolution — 82% of issues closed
16.5/30PR acceptance — 205/373 decided PRs merged
0/13Newcomer PR acceptance — no first-time contributor's PR decided in 30d
3/15OpenSSF Scorecard: Code-Review — Found 5/20 approved changesets -- score normalized to 2
Inputs used
merged_prs205
open_issues176
closed_issues802
prs_merged_7d0
prs_decided_7d0
prs_merged_30d0
prs_decided_30d3
issue_closed_ratio0.82
closed_unmerged_prs168
first_time_authors_30d0
first_time_prs_merged_30d0
first_time_prs_decided_30d0
Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Newcomer PR acceptance. Remaining weights renormalized.

Ownership & stewardship

67Good
How it's scored
10/30Ownership backing — personal (user) account
0/20Verified domain — not applicable to user accounts
20.8/25Owner reach — 787 followers of m-bain
23/25Track record — 31 public repos, account ~8 yr old
Inputs used
followers787
owner_typeUser
is_verified—
owner_loginm-bain
public_repos31
account_age_days3,120
Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Verified domain. Remaining weights renormalized.

Package maintenance

100Exceptional
How it's scored
25/25Published & resolvable — 1 package(s) on pypi
35/35Publish recency — latest publish 114 days ago
20/20Version history — 44 published versions
20/20Not deprecated — active, not deprecated or yanked
Inputs used
packageswhisperx
ecosystemspypi
any_deprecatedno
min_days_since_publish114

Engineering Quality

Are baseline engineering and documentation practices in place?

60Moderate · 19% of overall

Engineering practices

66Good
How it's scored
24/24CI workflows — 4 workflow(s)
24/24Tests present
0/16Linter config
0/9.6Pre-commit hooks
0/6.4.editorconfig
18/20OpenSSF Scorecard: CI-Tests — 14 out of 15 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 9
Inputs used
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has_testsyes
has_editorconfigno
has_linter_configno
has_precommit_configno

Documentation

50Moderate
How it's scored
30/30README
0/25Documentation directory
0/15Documentation / homepage site
10/10Repository description
10/10Topics — 5 topics
0/10Wiki
Inputs used
topicsasr, speech, speech-recognition, speech-to-text, whisper
has_wikino
homepage—
docs_site—
has_readmeyes
has_docs_dirno
has_descriptionyes

Security

Are visible security and supply-chain practices strong, without unresolved high-risk jurisdiction exposure?

52Moderate · 16% of overall

Security posture

54Moderate
How it's scored
7.5/7.5Binary-Artifacts — no binaries found in the repo
0/7.5Branch-Protection — no data
2.2/2.5CI-Tests — 14 out of 15 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 9
0/2.5CII-Best-Practices — no effort to earn an OpenSSF best practices badge detected
1.5/7.5Code-Review — Found 5/20 approved changesets -- score normalized to 2
2.5/2.5Contributors — project has 6 contributing companies or organizations
10/10Dangerous-Workflow — no dangerous workflow patterns detected
7.5/7.5Dependency-Update-Tool — update tool detected
0/5Fuzzing — project is not fuzzed
2.5/2.5License — license file detected
2.2/7.5Maintained — 2 commit(s) and 2 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 3
0/5Packaging — no data
5/5Pinned-Dependencies — all dependencies are pinned
1.5/5SAST — SAST tool is not run on all commits -- score normalized to 3
0/5Security-Policy — security policy file not detected
0/7.5Signed-Releases — Project has not signed or included provenance with any releases.
7.5/7.5Token-Permissions — GitHub workflow tokens follow principle of least privilege
0/7.5Vulnerabilities — 113 existing vulnerabilities detected
Inputs used
sourceopenssf_scorecard
checks_evaluated16
scorecard_versionv5.5.0
checks_inconclusive2
scorecard_aggregate5.4
Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Branch-Protection, Packaging. Remaining weights renormalized.

Dependency advisories

43Weak
How it's scored
5.8/35Direct dependencies free of known advisories — 3 affected: transformers 4.57.6 (critical 9.6), nltk 3.10.3 (high 7.0), torch 2.8.0 (high 8.8)
9.4/25Indirect dependencies free of known advisories — 1 affected: lightning 2.6.6 (high 7.8)
27.4/40No advisories left outstanding — 2 advisory-carrying package(s) unaddressed past 90 days; oldest published 534 days ago
Inputs used
sourceosv
advisories19
affected_packages4
assessed_packages108
unassessed_packages0
affected_by_severitycritical 1, high 3
direct_affected_packages3
Matched the pypi:whisperx@3.8.6 runtime dependency closure — what installing the published package pulls in — 108 packages. Reachability is not analyzed.

AI Readiness

How well is the repo equipped to be developed and maintained with AI coding agents? Carries a deliberately small weight (4%): agent tooling is a real maintenance signal, but a repository with none can still reach 100/100.

57Moderate · 4% of overall

Agent context & guidance

55Moderate
How it's scored
0/45Agent instructions — no CLAUDE.md / AGENTS.md / editor rules
15/15Machine-readable docs (llms.txt) — llms.txt served by the project website (https://docs.nvidia.com/llms.txt)
40/40Legible commit history — 88 of 99 human commits state their intent (structured subject or explanatory body)
Inputs used
has_llms_txtyes
llms_txt_urlhttps://docs.nvidia.com/llms.txt
legible_history_share0.889
agent_instruction_files—
agent_instruction_max_bytes—

Verify loop (build / test / typecheck)

60Moderate
How it's scored
0/18One-command bootstrap
22/22Automated tests
0/11Lint / format config
0/11Static type checking
10/10Reproducible environment — lockfile
10/10Demonstrated agent practice — 18 of the last 100 commits agent-authored or agent-credited
8/8Automated maintenance — 1 of the last 100 commits are automated dependency updates
10/10OpenSSF Scorecard: Pinned-Dependencies — all dependencies are pinned
Inputs used
has_nixno
has_testsyes
lockfilesuv.lock
has_dockerfileno
typed_languageno
bootstrap_files—
has_devcontainerno
has_linter_configno
typecheck_configs—
agent_commit_share0.18
toolchain_manifests—
dependency_bot_commit_share0.01

Code legibility for models

55Moderate
How it's scored
0/45Type-checkable code — Python without a type-check config
55/55Manageable file sizes — 0/17 source files over 60KB
Inputs used
primary_languagePython
largest_source_bytes22,033
source_files_sampled17
oversized_source_files0

Key facts

24,069GitHub stars
99contributors
74commits, last 12 months
17days since last push
44releases
2bus factor
176open issues
PyPIpackage ecosystems

Data collection warnings

  • Star history unavailable: GitHub GraphQL error: Resource not accessible by personal access token
  • Star history carried forward from 2026-07-21: GitHub restricted the stargazers API to repository admins, so it can no longer be collected. The repository has 24069 stars today.
  • pypi download statistics for 'whisperx' unavailable this scan (stats endpoint failed after retries); adoption may be under-evidenced
  • pypi download figures for whisperx carried forward from the previous scan (stats endpoint unavailable this scan)

More detail

Star and fork history 23,163 ★ / 2,423 ⇿
23,163Stars
2,423Forks
34Releases

When each star and fork was added, collected from GitHub and bucketed by day. Cumulative growth sits directly above the daily additions it is made of, so the two read against each other: steady organic accretion looks nothing like an abrupt, short-lived burst. Where that difference is measurable, it is reported as growth authenticity.

Only the most recent history is shown — this repository exceeds the collection window, so the earliest history is not captured.

Star history is shown as collected on 2026-07-21. GitHub restricted the stargazers API to repository administrators in July 2026, so this series can no longer be extended; the current star total above remains live.

04,0008,00012,00016,00020,00024,00023,1632,423622025-012025-112026-09
Major 0Minor 5Patch 28

Each point covers 2 days.

OpenSSF Scorecard 5.4 / 10
5.4aggregate

Independent, tool-agnostic security assessment from the open-source OpenSSF Scorecard. Each check rewards a security practice, not a specific vendor's tool. Checks Scorecard could not determine are marked n/a and excluded from the security score (never counted as zero).Scorecard v5.5.0 · 2026-09-16 19:38 UTC

10Binary-Artifactsno binaries found in the repo
n/aBranch-Protectioninternal error: error during branchesHandler.setup: internal error: some github tokens can't read classic branch protection rules: https://github.com/ossf/scorecard-action/blob/main/docs/authentication/fine-grained-auth-token.md
9CI-Tests14 out of 15 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 9
0CII-Best-Practicesno effort to earn an OpenSSF best practices badge detected
2Code-ReviewFound 5/20 approved changesets -- score normalized to 2
10Contributorsproject has 6 contributing companies or organizations
10Dangerous-Workflowno dangerous workflow patterns detected
10Dependency-Update-Toolupdate tool detected
0Fuzzingproject is not fuzzed
10Licenselicense file detected
3Maintained2 commit(s) and 2 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 3
n/aPackagingpackaging workflow not detected
10Pinned-Dependenciesall dependencies are pinned
3SASTSAST tool is not run on all commits -- score normalized to 3
0Security-Policysecurity policy file not detected
0Signed-ReleasesProject has not signed or included provenance with any releases.
10Token-PermissionsGitHub workflow tokens follow principle of least privilege
0Vulnerabilities113 existing vulnerabilities detected
Direct dependencies 14
RegistryPackageVersion constraintManifest
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PyPIfaster-whisper>=1.2.0pyproject.toml
PyPInltk>=3.9.1pyproject.toml
PyPInumpy>=2.1.0pyproject.toml
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Full resolved dependency set from the GitHub dependency graph: 18 direct and 117 indirect (transitive) packages. The transitive closure is complete when the repository commits a lockfile.

RegistryPackageVersionRelation
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Dependency advisories 4

Installing pypi:whisperx@3.8.6 pulls in 108 packages, direct and transitive: 4 carry known advisories, of which 3 are direct dependencies.

PackageVersionRelationSeverityAdvisoriesFixed in
transformers4.57.6directcritical95.10.0
nltk3.10.3directhigh1—
torch2.8.0directhigh82.13.0
lightning2.6.6indirecthigh12022.6.15

An advisory means the version recorded in the dependency graph falls inside an advisory’s affected range. Reachability is not analysed, and the graph includes development and test pins — a finding may concern tooling rather than shipped software.

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