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.

Experimental recommendation: no model is below 20% error for this language.

accuracy vs speed

Welsh · 8 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
1 whisper-large-v2experimental pickaccurate pickfast pick 30.55 2.0× 1.0× 1.55 GB Apache-2.0
2 whisper-large-v3 30.67 2.0× 1.0× 1.55 GB Apache-2.0
3 whisper-large 36.33 2.0× 1.0× 1.55 GB Apache-2.0
4 whisper-large-v3-turbo 36.42 3.1× 1.4× 0.83 GB Apache-2.0
5 whisper-medium 40.08 4.1× 1.9× 0.77 GB Apache-2.0
6 whisper-small 64.47 11.7× 5.9× 0.25 GB Apache-2.0
7 whisper-base 98.19 29.0× 19.3× 0.08 GB Apache-2.0
8 whisper-tiny 116.68 43.1× 39.8× 0.04 GB Apache-2.0