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

Croatian · 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
1 canary-1b-v2!overall pickaccurate pickfast pick 8.40 14.1× 8.3× 1.07 GB CC-BY-4.0
2 whisper-large-v3 10.94 2.0× 1.0× 1.55 GB Apache-2.0
3 orukeet 11.26 25.1× 13.6× 0.69 GB CC-BY-SA-4.0
4 parakeet-ultra 11.30 23.0× 13.3× 0.69 GB CC-BY-4.0
5 whisper-large-v3-turbo 12.54 3.1× 1.4× 0.83 GB Apache-2.0
6 parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3 12.59 25.1× 13.7× 0.69 GB CC-BY-4.0
7 parakeet-primeline 13.68 25.0× 13.6× 0.69 GB CC-BY-4.0
8 whisper-large-v2 14.18 2.0× 1.0× 1.55 GB Apache-2.0
9 whisper-large 18.32 2.0× 1.0× 1.55 GB Apache-2.0
10 whisper-medium 21.19 4.1× 1.9× 0.77 GB Apache-2.0
11 nemotron-3.5-asr-streaming-0.6b 26.21 17.1× 10.6× 0.70 GB OpenMDW-1.1
12 whisper-small 36.05 11.7× 5.9× 0.25 GB Apache-2.0
13 Fun-ASR-MLT-Nano-2512! 61.07 8.8× 5.5× 0.83 GB FunASR Model Open Source License Agreement v1.1
14 whisper-base 64.23 29.0× 19.3× 0.08 GB Apache-2.0
15 whisper-tiny 84.36 43.1× 39.8× 0.04 GB Apache-2.0