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

Maltese · 14 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 parakeet-ultraoverall pickaccurate pickfast pick 17.01 23.0× 13.3× 0.69 GB CC-BY-4.0
2 orukeet 17.18 25.1× 13.6× 0.69 GB CC-BY-SA-4.0
3 canary-1b-v2! 19.75 14.1× 8.3× 1.07 GB CC-BY-4.0
4 parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3 20.63 25.1× 13.7× 0.69 GB CC-BY-4.0
5 parakeet-primeline 24.74 25.0× 13.6× 0.69 GB CC-BY-4.0
6 whisper-large-v3 68.79 2.0× 1.0× 1.55 GB Apache-2.0
7 whisper-large-v3-turbo 70.92 3.1× 1.4× 0.83 GB Apache-2.0
8 whisper-large-v2 73.79 2.0× 1.0× 1.55 GB Apache-2.0
9 whisper-large 84.11 2.0× 1.0× 1.55 GB Apache-2.0
10 whisper-medium 85.06 4.1× 1.9× 0.77 GB Apache-2.0
11 Fun-ASR-MLT-Nano-2512! 91.71 8.8× 5.5× 0.83 GB FunASR Model Open Source License Agreement v1.1
12 whisper-small 97.32 11.7× 5.9× 0.25 GB Apache-2.0
13 whisper-tiny 99.85 43.1× 39.8× 0.04 GB Apache-2.0
14 whisper-base 103.46 29.0× 19.3× 0.08 GB Apache-2.0