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+import torchaudio
+from pyannote.audio import Pipeline
+import sys
+import huggingface_hub
+import typer
+
+# ASR Models
+# Should be kept in sync with https://github.com/m-bain/whisperX/blob/main/whisperx/asr.py
+DEFAULT_ALIGN_MODELS_TORCH = {
+    "en": "WAV2VEC2_ASR_BASE_960H",
+    "fr": "VOXPOPULI_ASR_BASE_10K_FR",
+    "de": "VOXPOPULI_ASR_BASE_10K_DE",
+    "es": "VOXPOPULI_ASR_BASE_10K_ES",
+    "it": "VOXPOPULI_ASR_BASE_10K_IT",
+}
+
+DEFAULT_ALIGN_MODELS_HF = {
+    "ja": "jonatasgrosman/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-japanese",
+    "zh": "jonatasgrosman/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-chinese-zh-cn",
+    "nl": "jonatasgrosman/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-dutch",
+    "uk": "Yehor/wav2vec2-xls-r-300m-uk-with-small-lm",
+    "pt": "jonatasgrosman/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-portuguese",
+    "ar": "jonatasgrosman/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-arabic",
+    "cs": "comodoro/wav2vec2-xls-r-300m-cs-250",
+    "ru": "jonatasgrosman/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-russian",
+    "pl": "jonatasgrosman/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-polish",
+    "hu": "jonatasgrosman/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-hungarian",
+    "fi": "jonatasgrosman/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-finnish",
+    "fa": "jonatasgrosman/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-persian",
+    "el": "jonatasgrosman/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-greek",
+    "tr": "mpoyraz/wav2vec2-xls-r-300m-cv7-turkish",
+    "da": "saattrupdan/wav2vec2-xls-r-300m-ftspeech",
+    "he": "imvladikon/wav2vec2-xls-r-300m-hebrew",
+    "vi": 'nguyenvulebinh/wav2vec2-base-vi',
+    "ko": "kresnik/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-korean",
+    "ur": "kingabzpro/wav2vec2-large-xls-r-300m-Urdu",
+    "te": "anuragshas/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-telugu",
+    "hi": "theainerd/Wav2Vec2-large-xlsr-hindi",
+    "ca": "softcatala/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-catala",
+    "ml": "gvs/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-malayalam",
+    "no": "NbAiLab/nb-wav2vec2-1b-bokmaal",
+    "nn": "NbAiLab/nb-wav2vec2-300m-nynorsk",
+}
+
+def download_torch_align_models():
+    for lang, model_name in DEFAULT_ALIGN_MODELS_TORCH.items():
+        print(f"Downloading {model_name} for {lang}")
+        bundle = torchaudio.pipelines.__dict__[model_name]
+        bundle.get_model()
+        print(f"Downloaded {model_name} for {lang}")
+
+def download_huggingface_align_models():
+    for lang, model_name in DEFAULT_ALIGN_MODELS_HF.items():
+        print(f"Downloading {model_name} for {lang}")
+        huggingface_hub.snapshot_download(model_name)
+        print(f"Downloaded {model_name} for {lang}")
+
+
+# Diarization - see https://github.com/m-bain/whisperX/blob/main/whisperx/diarize.py
+
+def download_diarization_models(auth_token):
+    PYANNOTE_MODEL="pyannote/speaker-diarization-3.1"
+    Pipeline.from_pretrained(PYANNOTE_MODEL, use_auth_token=auth_token)
+
+# faster-whisper models
+
+################
+# Note - this section below is copied from https://github.com/SYSTRAN/faster-whisper/blob/master/faster_whisper/utils.py
+# and then heavily simplified to only include the models we need
+###############
+
+WHISPER_MODELS = {
+    "tiny": "Systran/faster-whisper-tiny",
+    "small": "Systran/faster-whisper-small",
+    "medium": "Systran/faster-whisper-medium",
+    "large": "Systran/faster-whisper-large-v3",
+}
+
+def download_model(
+        model: str,
+):
+    """Downloads a CTranslate2 Whisper model from the Hugging Face Hub.
+
+    Args:
+      model: Size of the model to download from https://huggingface.co/Systran
+        (see https://github.com/SYSTRAN/faster-whisper/blob/master/faster_whisper/utils.py#L12 for full list) - here
+        limited to tiny, small, medium, large.
+    Returns:
+      The path to the downloaded model.
+    """
+    repo_id = WHISPER_MODELS.get(model)
+
+    allow_patterns = [
+        "config.json",
+        "preprocessor_config.json",
+        "model.bin",
+        "tokenizer.json",
+        "vocabulary.*",
+    ]
+
+    kwargs = {
+        "allow_patterns": allow_patterns,
+    }
+
+    return huggingface_hub.snapshot_download(repo_id, **kwargs)
+
+def download_all_whisper_models():
+    for model_name in WHISPER_MODELS.keys():
+        download_model(model_name)
+
+app = typer.Typer()
+
+@app.command()
+def main(
+        whisper_models: bool = typer.Option(False, help="Download whisper models"),
+        diarization_models: bool = typer.Option(False, help="Download diarization models"),
+        torch_align_models: bool = typer.Option(False, help="Download torch align models"),
+        huggingface_align_models: bool = typer.Option(False, help="Download huggingface align models"),
+        huggingface_token: str = typer.Option("", help="Huggingface authentication token")):
+    if whisper_models:
+        download_all_whisper_models()
+    if diarization_models:
+        if not huggingface_token:
+            print("Please provide a Huggingface authentication token (--huggingface-token <token>)")
+            sys.exit(1)
+        download_diarization_models(huggingface_token)
+    if torch_align_models:
+        download_torch_align_models()
+    if huggingface_align_models:
+        download_huggingface_align_models()
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    typer.run(main)