Speech-to-text

Whisper large-v3 requirements, license & speed

By OpenAI · released 2023-11-07 · 1.54B parameters

Commercial useYes
Min memory~10 GB VRAM
Runs on CPUUnknown
StreamingNo

Key facts

License
apache-2.0 source
Commercial use
Yes source
HF card: Apache-2.0; GitHub repo: code and weights MIT
Parameters
1.54B source
safetensors parameter count
Minimum memory
~10 GB VRAM source
Runs on CPU
Unknown
Streaming
No source
30-second window encoder-decoder; real-time use needs a wrapper such as whisper_streaming
Voice cloning
n/a (speech-to-text)
Languages
en, zh, de, es, ru, ko, fr, ja, pt, tr, pl, ca, nl, ar, sv, it, id, hi, fi, vi, he, uk, el, ms, cs, ro, da, hu, ta, no, th, ur, hr, bg, lt, la, mi, ml, cy, sk, te, fa, lv, bn, sr, az, sl, kn, et, mk, br, eu, is, hy, ne, mn, bs, kk, sq, sw, gl, mr, pa, si, km, sn, yo, so, af, oc, ka, be, tg, sd, gu, am, yi, lo, uz, fo, ht, ps, tk, nn, mt, sa, lb, my, bo, tl, mg, as, tt, haw, ln, ha, ba, jw, su source
Released
2023-11-07 source
Hugging Face repo creation date (proxy for release date)
Gated on HF
No

Measured speed & memory

Benchmark pending. We haven't measured Whisper large-v3 yet. Planned targets: Raspberry Pi 5, CPU-only x86, Apple Silicon Mac and consumer GPUs. Get notified.

Accuracy

We don't run accuracy evals. For word error rate, check the Hugging Face Open ASR Leaderboard.

Comparisons: Whisper vs Parakeet

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