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

Icelandic · 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-v3-turboexperimental pickaccurate pickfast pick 21.39 3.1× 1.4× 0.83 GB Apache-2.0
2 whisper-large-v3 31.85 2.0× 1.0× 1.55 GB Apache-2.0
3 whisper-large-v2 39.59 2.0× 1.0× 1.55 GB Apache-2.0
4 whisper-large 49.76 2.0× 1.0× 1.55 GB Apache-2.0
5 whisper-medium 51.60 4.1× 1.9× 0.77 GB Apache-2.0
6 whisper-small 74.54 11.7× 5.9× 0.25 GB Apache-2.0
7 whisper-base 99.32 29.0× 19.3× 0.08 GB Apache-2.0
8 whisper-tiny 115.88 43.1× 39.8× 0.04 GB Apache-2.0