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Whisper large-v3 turbo

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

Whisper with a 4-layer decoder: much faster, slightly less accurate.

Datasheet

Maker
OpenAI
Parameters
809 MVerifiedsafetensors.total from the HF API Source
Licence
MITVerified
Access
Public download
Task (HF pipeline)
automatic-speech-recognition
First published on HF
2024-10-01
Last updated on HF
2024-10-04
Weights in memory
1.6 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

8.39%
Open ASR Leaderboard, average WER (English short-form) · #7 of 7 scored in this category

avg 8.3871, RTFx 810.5. Source

Used in

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