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Whisper large-v3

Hugging Face: openai/whisper-large-v3 · checked 2026-10-13

The multilingual reference ASR model.

Datasheet

Maker
OpenAI
Parameters
1.54 BVerifiedsafetensors.total from the HF API Source
Licence
Apache-2.0Verified
Access
Public download
Task (HF pipeline)
automatic-speech-recognition
First published on HF
2023-11-07
Last updated on HF
2024-08-12
Weights in memory
3.1 GB at 16-bit · 0.9 GB at ~4.85 bitsEstimateParameters × bits ÷ 8. Excludes context cache and runtime overhead; not every model has a 4-bit build.

Benchmark

7.84%
Open ASR Leaderboard, average WER (English short-form) · #6 of 7 scored in this category

avg 7.8414, RTFx 470.73. Source

Used in

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