best model by language
Benchmarked on the FLEURS test split at Q8_0. Error is CER — lower is better. Speed is × realtime on Handy target hardware.
accuracy vs speed
Thai · 7 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 | Qwen3-ASR-1.7Bmost accurate | 6.896.15–7.73 | 3.8× | 2.0× | 2.04 GB | Apache-2.0 |
| 2 | Fun-ASR-MLT-Nano-2512!overall pickfast pick | 7.997.20–8.97 | 9.0× | 4.5× | 0.83 GB | FunASR Model Open Source License Agreement v1.1 |
| 3 | whisper-large-v3 | 8.788.10–9.55 | 2.1× | 0.6× | 1.55 GB | Apache-2.0 |
| 4 | Qwen3-ASR-0.6B | 8.818.04–9.71 | 8.0× | 4.3× | 0.79 GB | Apache-2.0 |
| 5 | whisper-large-v3-turbo | 13.1512.45–14.04 | 3.4× | 0.8× | 0.83 GB | Apache-2.0 |
| 6 | whisper-medium | 16.0815.23–16.99 | 4.3× | 1.1× | 0.77 GB | Apache-2.0 |
| 7 | whisper-small | 22.5521.71–23.49 | 12.1× | 3.4× | 0.25 GB | Apache-2.0 |