faster-whisper-small vs nb-wav2vec2-1b-nynorsk

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 10 November 2026.

Systran · A · Open weights
Params
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Context
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30d
5.7 M
mit · commercial OK
NbAiLab · B · Open weights
Params
960 M
Context
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30d
775 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification faster-whisper-small nb-wav2vec2-1b-nynorsk
Parameters — 960 M
Architecture — Wav2Vec2ForCTC
Context length — —
Licence mit apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages 99 2
Downloads 30d 5,718,052 775,474
Downloads all time 26.0 M 11.7 M
Quantizations on the Hub — SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2023-11-23 2022-06-09

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 90 days (13 Aug – 10 Nov)

5.7 M561 K
faster-whisper-small nb-wav2vec2-1b-nynorsk

VRAM side by side

On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted

nb-wav2vec2-1b-nynorsk · fp16 4.9 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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