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 · 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 | canary-1b-v2!overall pickmost accuratefast pick | 8.407.81–9.01 | 13.2× | 6.7× | 1.10 GB | CC-BY-4.0 |
| 2 | whisper-large-v3 | 10.9410.34–11.55 | 2.1× | 0.6× | 1.55 GB | Apache-2.0 |
| 3 | whisper-large-v3-turbo | 12.5411.83–13.26 | 3.4× | 0.8× | 0.83 GB | Apache-2.0 |
| 4 | parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3 | 12.5911.85–13.37 | 12.5× | 7.5× | 0.72 GB | CC-BY-4.0 |
| 5 | parakeet-primeline | 13.6812.94–14.51 | 12.5× | 7.5× | 0.72 GB | CC-BY-4.0 |
| 6 | whisper-medium | 21.1920.29–22.07 | 4.3× | 1.1× | 0.77 GB | Apache-2.0 |
| 7 | nemotron-3.5-asr-streaming-0.6b | 26.2125.13–27.33 | 14.5× | 7.5× | 0.70 GB | OpenMDW-1.1 |
| 8 | whisper-small | 36.0535.00–37.15 | 12.1× | 3.4× | 0.25 GB | Apache-2.0 |
| 9 | Fun-ASR-MLT-Nano-2512! | 61.0758.92–63.35 | 9.0× | 4.5× | 0.83 GB | FunASR Model Open Source License Agreement v1.1 |