openai / automatic-speech-recognition updated 1 year ago

whisper-large-v3

Name: whisper-large-v3
Author: openai

Whisper is a state-of-the-art model for automatic speech recognition (ASR) and speech translation, proposed in the paper Robust Speech Recognition via Large-Scale Weak Supervision by Alec Radford et al. from OpenAI. Trained on >5M hours of labeled data, Whisper demonstrates a strong ability to generalise to many datasets and domains in a zero-shot setting.

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1.5 B

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Commercial use: allowed apache-2.0 Not gated SAFETENSORS 99 languages View on Hugging Face ↗

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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	f16	9.3 GB	10.9 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: WhisperForConditionalGeneration
Parameters: 1.5 B
Tensor type: F16
Vocabulary: 51,866
Licence: apache-2.0
First seen on the Hub: 2023-11-07
Training datasets: undisclosed
Added to our catalog: 2026-07-28

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Base model and the most-downloaded derivatives in the catalog.

Derivative whisper-large-v3-turbo openai 8.7 M

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