# Adding transformers to the runtime

**URL:** <https://community.drivendata.org/t/adding-transformers-to-the-runtime/11340>\
**Category:** Children’s Speech Recognition Challenge\
**Created:** [February 7, 2026, 4:39am UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/adding-transformers-to-the-runtime/11340 "2026-02-07T04:39:22Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![aleks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8edcca/32.png) [@aleks](https://community.drivendata.org/u/aleks)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2026, 4:39am UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/adding-transformers-to-the-runtime/11340/1 "2026-02-07T04:39:22Z")

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Could transformers be added to the runtime?

> **[transformers](https://pypi.org/project/transformers/#description)**
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> 5.1.0 | Transformers: the model-definition framework for state-of-the-art machine learning models in text, vision, audio, and multimodal models, for both inference and training.

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**Author:** ![discourse\_ai\_spam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c68b51/32.png) [@discourse\_ai\_spam](https://community.drivendata.org/u/discourse_ai_spam)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2026, 4:39am UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/adding-transformers-to-the-runtime/11340/2 "2026-02-07T04:39:25Z")

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/uploads/drivendata1/original/1X/5dca695e1f9fe08dab5eea812d66023c1754c698.svg) [@system](https://community.drivendata.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2026, 3:08pm UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/adding-transformers-to-the-runtime/11340/3 "2026-02-09T15:08:41Z")

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**Author:** ![cszc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c68b51/32.png) [@cszc](https://community.drivendata.org/u/cszc)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2026, 3:11pm UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/adding-transformers-to-the-runtime/11340/4 "2026-02-09T15:11:05Z")

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Hi @aleks - You can request a new runtime dependency by following the directions [here](https://github.com/drivendataorg/childrens-speech-recognition-runtime?tab=readme-ov-file#updating-runtime-dependencies)