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
Malay · 7 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 | whisper-large-v3most accurate | 7.597.04–8.19 | 2.1× | 0.6× | 1.55 GB | Apache-2.0 |
| 2 | whisper-large-v3-turbo | 8.648.00–9.30 | 3.4× | 0.8× | 0.83 GB | Apache-2.0 |
| 3 | Fun-ASR-MLT-Nano-2512!overall pickfast pick | 9.929.01–10.83 | 9.0× | 4.5× | 0.83 GB | FunASR Model Open Source License Agreement v1.1 |
| 4 | Qwen3-ASR-1.7B | 10.429.72–11.11 | 3.8× | 2.0× | 2.04 GB | Apache-2.0 |
| 5 | whisper-medium | 13.2312.44–14.03 | 4.3× | 1.1× | 0.77 GB | Apache-2.0 |
| 6 | Qwen3-ASR-0.6B | 17.1816.28–18.01 | 8.0× | 4.3× | 0.79 GB | Apache-2.0 |
| 7 | whisper-small | 21.4820.38–22.72 | 12.1× | 3.4× | 0.25 GB | Apache-2.0 |