Setting the root path for model download

[hmf]

Hello,

I have experimented in Linux with faster-whisper and would like to try RealtimSTT (using the git repo code). I have very little disc space and have therefore downloaded the models to an alternate path (not the default .cache directory) using faster-whisper. I see that we have a model_path that is assigned to faster whisper's WhisperModel.model_size_or_path. What I would like is to set is WhisperModel.download_root.

I could change this and hard-code the root. But before I go that route, I would like to know if there is a "better" to go about this.

TIA