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
Turkish · 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 | whisper-large-v3most accurate | 6.515.90–7.13 | 2.1× | 0.6× | 1.55 GB | Apache-2.0 |
| 2 | whisper-large-v3-turbooverall pick | 6.976.33–7.64 | 3.4× | 0.8× | 0.83 GB | Apache-2.0 |
| 3 | whisper-medium | 9.358.65–10.19 | 4.3× | 1.1× | 0.77 GB | Apache-2.0 |
| 4 | Qwen3-ASR-1.7B | 9.468.72–10.22 | 3.8× | 2.0× | 2.04 GB | Apache-2.0 |
| 5 | nemotron-3.5-asr-streaming-0.6bfast pick | 15.4014.46–16.35 | 14.5× | 7.5× | 0.70 GB | OpenMDW-1.1 |
| 6 | whisper-small | 15.9514.93–17.00 | 12.1× | 3.4× | 0.25 GB | Apache-2.0 |
| 7 | Qwen3-ASR-0.6B | 16.7415.89–17.74 | 8.0× | 4.3× | 0.79 GB | Apache-2.0 |