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
Swedish · 11 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 | 7.807.22–8.37 | 2.1× | 0.6× | 1.55 GB | Apache-2.0 |
| 2 | whisper-large-v3-turbo | 8.728.12–9.34 | 3.4× | 0.8× | 0.83 GB | Apache-2.0 |
| 3 | canary-1b-v2!overall pickfast pick | 9.749.06–10.44 | 13.2× | 6.7× | 1.10 GB | CC-BY-4.0 |
| 4 | whisper-medium | 12.4711.70–13.21 | 4.3× | 1.1× | 0.77 GB | Apache-2.0 |
| 5 | parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3 | 15.2514.38–16.05 | 12.5× | 7.5× | 0.72 GB | CC-BY-4.0 |
| 6 | parakeet-primeline | 16.4215.53–17.29 | 12.5× | 7.5× | 0.72 GB | CC-BY-4.0 |
| 7 | Qwen3-ASR-1.7B | 19.6818.70–20.62 | 3.8× | 2.0× | 2.04 GB | Apache-2.0 |
| 8 | whisper-small | 23.1021.94–24.32 | 12.1× | 3.4× | 0.25 GB | Apache-2.0 |
| 9 | nemotron-3.5-asr-streaming-0.6b | 24.3223.32–25.30 | 14.5× | 7.5× | 0.70 GB | OpenMDW-1.1 |
| 10 | Qwen3-ASR-0.6B | 35.7234.53–36.94 | 8.0× | 4.3× | 0.79 GB | Apache-2.0 |
| 11 | Fun-ASR-MLT-Nano-2512! | 75.3672.22–79.42 | 9.0× | 4.5× | 0.83 GB | FunASR Model Open Source License Agreement v1.1 |