OpenVINO 2026 stateful export of
openai/whisper-large-v3-turbo, suitable for
openvino_genai.WhisperPipeline on Intel NPU (Panther Lake "AI Boost" / Lunar Lake / Meteor Lake).
Existing community NPU exports (e.g. FluidInference/whisper-large-v3-turbo-int4-ov-npu) were produced with an older OpenVINO that emits the legacy two-file decoder shape (openvino_decoder_model.xml + openvino_decoder_with_past_model.xml) without a beam_idx input. OpenVINO 2026's NPU plugin runs a StatefulToStateless transform that requires beam_idx, so loading those older IRs on NPU fails with:
1optimum-cli export openvino \
2 --model openai/whisper-large-v3-turbo \
3 --task automatic-speech-recognition-with-past \
4 --weight-format fp16 \
5 whisper-large-v3-turbo-fp16-ov-npu
1import openvino_genai
2pipe = openvino_genai.WhisperPipeline("./whisper-large-v3-turbo-fp16-ov-npu", "NPU")
3text = str(pipe.generate(audio_float32_16k))