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.

No supported recommendation: the lowest error is at least 30% and its 95% confidence interval does not overlap 30%.

accuracy vs speed

Māori · 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 38.78 2.0× 1.0× 1.55 GB Apache-2.0
2 whisper-large-v2 39.72 2.0× 1.0× 1.55 GB Apache-2.0
3 whisper-large-v3-turbo 48.91 3.1× 1.4× 0.83 GB Apache-2.0
4 whisper-large 54.38 2.0× 1.0× 1.55 GB Apache-2.0
5 whisper-small 62.82 11.7× 5.9× 0.25 GB Apache-2.0
6 whisper-base 81.65 29.0× 19.3× 0.08 GB Apache-2.0
7 whisper-medium 95.79 4.1× 1.9× 0.77 GB Apache-2.0
8 whisper-tiny 96.27 43.1× 39.8× 0.04 GB Apache-2.0