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

Slovenian · 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 canary-1b-v2!overall pickaccurate pickfast pick 12.76 14.1× 8.3× 1.07 GB CC-BY-4.0
2 parakeet-ultra 18.98 23.0× 13.3× 0.69 GB CC-BY-4.0
3 whisper-large-v3 19.15 2.0× 1.0× 1.55 GB Apache-2.0
4 whisper-large-v3-turbo 20.56 3.1× 1.4× 0.83 GB Apache-2.0
5 orukeet 24.00 25.1× 13.6× 0.69 GB CC-BY-SA-4.0
6 parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3 24.30 25.1× 13.7× 0.69 GB CC-BY-4.0
7 whisper-large-v2 24.73 2.0× 1.0× 1.55 GB Apache-2.0
8 whisper-large 29.94 2.0× 1.0× 1.55 GB Apache-2.0
9 whisper-medium 33.98 4.1× 1.9× 0.77 GB Apache-2.0
10 parakeet-primeline 51.07 25.0× 13.6× 0.69 GB CC-BY-4.0
11 whisper-small 52.70 11.7× 5.9× 0.25 GB Apache-2.0
12 Fun-ASR-MLT-Nano-2512! 75.22 8.8× 5.5× 0.83 GB FunASR Model Open Source License Agreement v1.1
13 whisper-base 77.90 29.0× 19.3× 0.08 GB Apache-2.0
14 whisper-tiny 91.29 43.1× 39.8× 0.04 GB Apache-2.0