Qwen / automatic-speech-recognition updated 6 months ago

Qwen3-ASR-0.6B

Name: Qwen3-ASR-0.6B
Author: Qwen

The Qwen3-ASR family includes Qwen3-ASR-1.7B and Qwen3-ASR-0.6B, which support language identification and ASR for 52 languages and dialects. Both leverage large-scale speech training data and the strong audio understanding capability of their foundation model, Qwen3-Omni. Experiments show that the 1.7B version achieves state-of-the-art performance among open-source ASR models and is competitive with the strongest pr...

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Estimated VRAM at 8K context unless noted. Pick your hardware to see the verdict per quantization.

File	Quant	Size	Est. VRAM	Verdict on RTX 4090 · 24 GB
model.safetensors	bf16	1.9 GB	2.7 GB	✅ Runs comfortably

Estimate: file size × 1.1 + KV cache at 8K + 0.5 GB overhead. Not a benchmark — how we calculate this.

Specifications

Architecture: Qwen3ASRForConditionalGeneration
Parameters: 940 M
Tensor type: BF16
Licence: apache-2.0
First seen on the Hub: 2026-01-28
Training datasets: undisclosed
Added to our catalog: 2026-07-28

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