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
Polish · 12 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 | 4.694.15–5.26 | 2.1× | 0.6× | 1.55 GB | Apache-2.0 |
| 2 | whisper-large-v3-turbo | 5.815.26–6.45 | 3.4× | 0.8× | 0.83 GB | Apache-2.0 |
| 3 | cohere-transcribe-03-2026! | 6.155.51–6.85 | 8.0× | 3.0× | 2.41 GB | Apache-2.0 |
| 4 | canary-1b-v2!overall pickfast pick | 6.886.32–7.44 | 13.2× | 6.7× | 1.10 GB | CC-BY-4.0 |
| 5 | parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3 | 7.376.75–7.97 | 12.5× | 7.5× | 0.72 GB | CC-BY-4.0 |
| 6 | parakeet-primeline | 8.197.45–9.07 | 12.5× | 7.5× | 0.72 GB | CC-BY-4.0 |
| 7 | whisper-medium | 8.597.97–9.27 | 4.3× | 1.1× | 0.77 GB | Apache-2.0 |
| 8 | Qwen3-ASR-1.7B | 12.5011.66–13.28 | 3.8× | 2.0× | 2.04 GB | Apache-2.0 |
| 9 | whisper-small | 16.8215.87–17.80 | 12.1× | 3.4× | 0.25 GB | Apache-2.0 |
| 10 | nemotron-3.5-asr-streaming-0.6b | 17.5416.58–18.50 | 14.5× | 7.5× | 0.70 GB | OpenMDW-1.1 |
| 11 | Qwen3-ASR-0.6B | 25.0624.04–26.12 | 8.0× | 4.3× | 0.79 GB | Apache-2.0 |
| 12 | Fun-ASR-MLT-Nano-2512! | 59.3457.63–61.19 | 9.0× | 4.5× | 0.83 GB | FunASR Model Open Source License Agreement v1.1 |