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
Vietnamese · 9 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 | 6.155.68–6.61 | 3.8× | 2.0× | 2.04 GB | Apache-2.0 |
| 2 | cohere-transcribe-03-2026!overall pickfast pick | 7.396.80–7.98 | 8.0× | 3.0× | 2.41 GB | Apache-2.0 |
| 3 | Fun-ASR-MLT-Nano-2512! | 8.327.70–8.90 | 9.0× | 4.5× | 0.83 GB | FunASR Model Open Source License Agreement v1.1 |
| 4 | whisper-large-v3 | 8.748.12–9.46 | 2.1× | 0.6× | 1.55 GB | Apache-2.0 |
| 5 | Qwen3-ASR-0.6B | 9.328.67–9.93 | 8.0× | 4.3× | 0.79 GB | Apache-2.0 |
| 6 | whisper-large-v3-turbo | 9.488.85–10.17 | 3.4× | 0.8× | 0.83 GB | Apache-2.0 |
| 7 | whisper-medium | 13.7412.94–14.63 | 4.3× | 1.1× | 0.77 GB | Apache-2.0 |
| 8 | nemotron-3.5-asr-streaming-0.6b | 13.9613.09–14.83 | 14.5× | 7.5× | 0.70 GB | OpenMDW-1.1 |
| 9 | whisper-small | 22.4721.57–23.47 | 12.1× | 3.4× | 0.25 GB | Apache-2.0 |