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
Korean · 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 | Qwen3-ASR-1.7Bmost accurate | 4.603.62–5.65 | 3.8× | 2.0× | 2.04 GB | Apache-2.0 |
| 2 | whisper-large-v3 | 4.893.93–5.90 | 2.1× | 0.6× | 1.55 GB | Apache-2.0 |
| 3 | Fun-ASR-MLT-Nano-2512!overall pick | 5.204.21–6.29 | 9.0× | 4.5× | 0.83 GB | FunASR Model Open Source License Agreement v1.1 |
| 4 | whisper-large-v3-turbo | 5.244.30–6.25 | 3.4× | 0.8× | 0.83 GB | Apache-2.0 |
| 5 | whisper-medium | 5.464.53–6.45 | 4.3× | 1.1× | 0.77 GB | Apache-2.0 |
| 6 | Qwen3-ASR-0.6B | 5.824.86–6.83 | 8.0× | 4.3× | 0.79 GB | Apache-2.0 |
| 7 | Voxtral-Mini-4B-Realtime-2602 | 5.994.92–7.17 | 0.9× | 0.6× | 4.73 GB | Apache-2.0 |
| 8 | cohere-transcribe-03-2026! | 6.575.50–7.65 | 8.0× | 3.0× | 2.41 GB | Apache-2.0 |
| 9 | whisper-small | 7.706.65–8.76 | 12.1× | 3.4× | 0.25 GB | Apache-2.0 |
| 10 | SenseVoiceSmallfast pick | 8.277.13–9.45 | 32.5× | 15.5× | 0.24 GB | model-license (FunASR MODEL_LICENSE) |
| 11 | nemotron-3.5-asr-streaming-0.6b | 8.897.78–10.06 | 14.5× | 7.5× | 0.70 GB | OpenMDW-1.1 |