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 · 8 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 | canary-1b-v2!overall pickmost accuratefast pick | 19.7517.99–22.38 | 13.2× | 6.7× | 1.10 GB | CC-BY-4.0 |
| 2 | parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3 | 20.6319.86–21.43 | 12.5× | 7.5× | 0.72 GB | CC-BY-4.0 |
| 3 | parakeet-primeline | 24.7423.87–25.63 | 12.5× | 7.5× | 0.72 GB | CC-BY-4.0 |
| 4 | whisper-large-v3 | 68.7967.66–70.06 | 2.1× | 0.6× | 1.55 GB | Apache-2.0 |
| 5 | whisper-large-v3-turbo | 70.9269.87–71.96 | 3.4× | 0.8× | 0.83 GB | Apache-2.0 |
| 6 | whisper-medium | 85.0684.12–86.01 | 4.3× | 1.1× | 0.77 GB | Apache-2.0 |
| 7 | Fun-ASR-MLT-Nano-2512! | 91.7190.91–92.56 | 9.0× | 4.5× | 0.83 GB | FunASR Model Open Source License Agreement v1.1 |
| 8 | whisper-small | 97.3295.64–99.20 | 12.1× | 3.4× | 0.25 GB | Apache-2.0 |