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
Hindi · 9 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-1.7Bmost accurate | 7.847.09–8.70 | 3.8× | 2.0× | 2.04 GB | Apache-2.0 |
| 2 | nemotron-3.5-asr-streaming-0.6boverall pickfast pick | 8.617.67–9.70 | 14.5× | 7.5× | 0.70 GB | OpenMDW-1.1 |
| 3 | Qwen3-ASR-0.6B | 12.6811.63–13.83 | 8.0× | 4.3× | 0.79 GB | Apache-2.0 |
| 4 | Voxtral-Mini-4B-Realtime-2602 | 17.0415.34–18.80 | 0.9× | 0.6× | 4.73 GB | Apache-2.0 |
| 5 | whisper-large-v3 | 17.0615.97–18.29 | 2.1× | 0.6× | 1.55 GB | Apache-2.0 |
| 6 | whisper-large-v3-turbo | 18.8517.82–20.10 | 3.4× | 0.8× | 0.83 GB | Apache-2.0 |
| 7 | whisper-medium | 26.0924.77–27.63 | 4.3× | 1.1× | 0.77 GB | Apache-2.0 |
| 8 | whisper-small | 42.0539.97–44.32 | 12.1× | 3.4× | 0.25 GB | Apache-2.0 |
| 9 | Fun-ASR-MLT-Nano-2512! | 43.9639.95–48.08 | 9.0× | 4.5× | 0.83 GB | FunASR Model Open Source License Agreement v1.1 |