Is faster-whisper broken in colab environment?

[dgoryeo]

Running stable-ts in colab using faster-whisper model, I have started getting this warning and then nothing happens:

/usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages/huggingface_hub/utils/_token.py:72: UserWarning: 
The secret `HF_TOKEN` does not exist in your Colab secrets.
To authenticate with the Hugging Face Hub, create a token in your settings tab (https://huggingface.co/settings/tokens), set it as secret in your Google Colab and restart your session.
You will be able to reuse this secret in all of your notebooks.
Please note that authentication is recommended but still optional to access public models or datasets.
  warnings.warn(

This started from today --I think colab has just made an update. Has anyone else come across this? Any workaround?

[dgoryeo]

Update to my earlier message:

Here is a quick fix pointed out in another thread: Stuck on model_load