feature: support CTranslate2

[mudler]

Among the backends that we already have, we should consider also ctransformers2 which is high performance: https://opennmt.net/CTranslate2/generation.html besides #796

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Great suggestion! We can definitely consider adding support for ctransformers2 as it seems to be a powerful backend. I will add this to our short-term roadmap and we will investigate the feasibility of implementing it. Thank you for bringing this up!

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[Aisuko]

@mudler Show more detail please. Do you mean we use it on Text generation or encode?

[bgeneto]

@mudler Show more detail please. Do you mean we use it on Text generation or encode?

I think for Speech-to-text usage with e.g. Systran/faster-whisper-large-v3 model. It could be another backend for Audio to text besides whisper.cpp