Available Models
Not all of the models that are made available with Whisper have yet been uploaded into this area yet. I will slowly
add them one by one as needed for xos. This documentation will be updated eventually and synchronized with the rest
of the projects specifications.
Models and Languages
There are six model sizes, four with English-only versions, offering speed and accuracy tradeoffs.
Below are the names of the available models and their approximate memory requirements and inference speed relative to the large model.
The relative speeds below are measured by transcribing English speech on a A100, and the real-world speed may vary significantly depending on many factors including the language, the speaking speed, and the available hardware.
| Size | Parameters | English-only model | Multilingual model | Required VRAM | Relative speed |
|---|
| tiny | 39 M | tiny.en | tiny | ~1 GB | ~10x |
| base | 74 M | base.en | base | ~1 GB | ~7x |
| small | 244 M | small.en | small | ~2 GB | ~4x |
| medium | 769 M | medium.en | medium | ~5 GB | ~2x |
| large | 1550 M | N/A | large | ~10 GB | 1x |
| turbo | 809 M | N/A | turbo | ~6 GB | ~8x |
