whisper-base
Whisper is a pre-trained model for automatic speech recognition (ASR) and speech translation. Trained on 680k hours of labelled data, Whisper models demonstrate a strong ability to generalise to many datasets and domains without the need for fine-tuning.
Params
70 M
Context
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Can you run it?
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 | f32 | 0.3 GB | 0.8 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
- 70 M
- Tensor type
- F32
- Vocabulary
- 51,865
- Licence
- apache-2.0
- First seen on the Hub
- 2022-09-26
- Training datasets
- undisclosed
- Common Voice 11.0 (reported)
- 131
- LibriSpeech (clean) (reported)
- 5.0087691176193
- LibriSpeech (other) (reported)
- 12.849362732121
- Added to our catalog
- 2026-07-28
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