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Distil-Whisper large-v3.5

Hugging Face: distil-whisper/distil-large-v3.5 · checked 2026-10-13

Distilled Whisper: faster, nearly the same English accuracy.

Datasheet

Maker
Hugging Face
Parameters
756 MVerifiedsafetensors.total from the HF API Source
Licence
MITVerified
Access
Public download
Task (HF pipeline)
automatic-speech-recognition
First published on HF
2024-12-05
Last updated on HF
2026-04-13
Weights in memory
1.5 GB at 16-bit · 0.5 GB at ~4.85 bitsEstimateParameters × bits ÷ 8. Excludes context cache and runtime overhead; not every model has a 4-bit build.

Benchmark

7.02%
Open ASR Leaderboard, average WER (English short-form) · #4 of 7 scored in this category

avg 7.0229, RTFx 898.21. Source

The description summarises the model card at https://huggingface.co/distil-whisper/distil-large-v3.5. Parameters and licence are read from the Hugging Face API; the weights-in-memory line is our arithmetic, not a measurement.