best model by language
Benchmarked on the FLEURS test split at Q8_0. Error is WER — lower is better. Speed is × realtime on Handy target hardware.
accuracy vs speed
Bulgarian · 15 models
AMD Ryzen 4750U GPU (Vulkan)
pareto frontier (no model is both faster and more accurate) other models
highlighted rows are recommended picks or on pareto frontier
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| 1 | canary-1b-v2!overall pickaccurate pickfast pick | 9.22 | 14.1× | 8.3× | 1.07 GB | CC-BY-4.0 |
| 2 | parakeet-ultra | 11.04 | 23.0× | 13.3× | 0.69 GB | CC-BY-4.0 |
| 3 | orukeet | 11.14 | 25.1× | 13.6× | 0.69 GB | CC-BY-SA-4.0 |
| 4 | parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3 | 12.81 | 25.1× | 13.7× | 0.69 GB | CC-BY-4.0 |
| 5 | whisper-large-v3 | 12.82 | 2.0× | 1.0× | 1.55 GB | Apache-2.0 |
| 6 | whisper-large-v3-turbo | 13.58 | 3.1× | 1.4× | 0.83 GB | Apache-2.0 |
| 7 | whisper-large-v2 | 15.81 | 2.0× | 1.0× | 1.55 GB | Apache-2.0 |
| 8 | parakeet-primeline | 16.33 | 25.0× | 13.6× | 0.69 GB | CC-BY-4.0 |
| 9 | whisper-large | 19.89 | 2.0× | 1.0× | 1.55 GB | Apache-2.0 |
| 10 | nemotron-3.5-asr-streaming-0.6b | 22.02 | 17.1× | 10.6× | 0.70 GB | OpenMDW-1.1 |
| 11 | whisper-medium | 23.00 | 4.1× | 1.9× | 0.77 GB | Apache-2.0 |
| 12 | whisper-small | 40.39 | 11.7× | 5.9× | 0.25 GB | Apache-2.0 |
| 13 | whisper-base | 70.53 | 29.0× | 19.3× | 0.08 GB | Apache-2.0 |
| 14 | whisper-tiny | 84.87 | 43.1× | 39.8× | 0.04 GB | Apache-2.0 |
| 15 | Fun-ASR-MLT-Nano-2512! | 84.98 | 8.8× | 5.5× | 0.83 GB | FunASR Model Open Source License Agreement v1.1 |