best model by language
Benchmarked on the FLEURS test split at Q8_0. Error is CER — lower is better. Speed is × realtime on Handy target hardware.
accuracy vs speed
Japanese · 11 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 | Fun-ASR-MLT-Nano-2512!overall pickmost accuratefast pick | 2.322.01–2.65 | 9.0× | 4.5× | 0.83 GB | FunASR Model Open Source License Agreement v1.1 |
| 2 | whisper-large-v3 | 4.814.25–5.61 | 2.1× | 0.6× | 1.55 GB | Apache-2.0 |
| 3 | whisper-large-v3-turbo | 4.824.40–5.30 | 3.4× | 0.8× | 0.83 GB | Apache-2.0 |
| 4 | cohere-transcribe-03-2026! | 5.134.48–5.84 | 8.0× | 3.0× | 2.41 GB | Apache-2.0 |
| 5 | Qwen3-ASR-1.7B | 5.294.81–5.80 | 3.8× | 2.0× | 2.04 GB | Apache-2.0 |
| 6 | whisper-medium | 7.356.79–7.91 | 4.3× | 1.1× | 0.77 GB | Apache-2.0 |
| 7 | SenseVoiceSmall | 7.637.10–8.22 | 32.5× | 15.5× | 0.24 GB | model-license (FunASR MODEL_LICENSE) |
| 8 | Qwen3-ASR-0.6B | 8.617.98–9.28 | 8.0× | 4.3× | 0.79 GB | Apache-2.0 |
| 9 | Voxtral-Mini-4B-Realtime-2602 | 9.458.20–11.05 | 0.9× | 0.6× | 4.73 GB | Apache-2.0 |
| 10 | whisper-small | 12.8112.05–13.52 | 12.1× | 3.4× | 0.25 GB | Apache-2.0 |
| 11 | nemotron-3.5-asr-streaming-0.6b | 13.5212.78–14.27 | 14.5× | 7.5× | 0.70 GB | OpenMDW-1.1 |