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
Persian · 6 models · left is slower, down is better · log speed axis
AMD Ryzen 4750U GPU (Vulkan)
pareto frontier (no model is both faster and more accurate) other models
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| 1 | Qwen3-ASR-1.7Boverall pickmost accuratefast pick | 28.2927.34–29.31 | 3.8× | 2.0× | 2.04 GB | Apache-2.0 |
| 2 | whisper-large-v3 | 30.1129.13–31.18 | 2.1× | 0.6× | 1.55 GB | Apache-2.0 |
| 3 | whisper-large-v3-turbo | 30.5629.52–31.66 | 3.4× | 0.8× | 0.83 GB | Apache-2.0 |
| 4 | whisper-medium | 42.5741.43–43.78 | 4.3× | 1.1× | 0.77 GB | Apache-2.0 |
| 5 | Qwen3-ASR-0.6B | 50.3049.30–51.39 | 8.0× | 4.3× | 0.79 GB | Apache-2.0 |
| 6 | whisper-small | 58.4457.10–59.92 | 12.1× | 3.4× | 0.25 GB | Apache-2.0 |