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Whisper Large v3 Turbo

Distilled Whisper Large v3. ~8x faster decode at near-equivalent accuracy on most languages.

License: MIT·Released Oct 1, 2024·Context: 0 tokens

Overview

Distilled Whisper Large v3. ~8x faster decode at near-equivalent accuracy on most languages.

Family & lineage

How this model relates to others in its lineage. Family members share architecture and training-data roots; parent / children edges record direct distillation or fine-tune relationships.

Parent / base model
Whisper Large v31.55B
Consumer
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Strengths

  • MIT license
  • 8x faster decode

Weaknesses

  • Slight accuracy drop on rare languages

Quantization variants

Each quantization trades model quality for file size and VRAM. Q4_K_M is the most popular starting point.

QuantizationFile sizeVRAM required
FP161.6 GB2 GB

Get the model

HuggingFace

Original weights

huggingface.co/openai/whisper-large-v3-turbo

Source repository — direct quantization required.

Hardware that runs this

Cards with enough VRAM for at least one quantization of Whisper Large v3 Turbo.

NVIDIA GB200 NVL72
13824GB · nvidia
AMD Instinct MI355X
288GB · amd
AMD Instinct MI325X
256GB · amd
AMD Instinct MI300X
192GB · amd
NVIDIA B200
192GB · nvidia
NVIDIA H100 NVL
188GB · nvidia
NVIDIA H200
141GB · nvidia
Intel Gaudi 3
128GB · intel
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Frequently asked

What's the minimum VRAM to run Whisper Large v3 Turbo?

2GB of VRAM is enough to run Whisper Large v3 Turbo at the FP16 quantization (file size 1.6 GB). Higher-quality quantizations need more.

Can I use Whisper Large v3 Turbo commercially?

Yes — Whisper Large v3 Turbo ships under the MIT, which permits commercial use. Always read the license text before deployment.

What's the context length of Whisper Large v3 Turbo?

Whisper Large v3 Turbo supports a context window of 0 tokens (about 0K).

Does Whisper Large v3 Turbo support images?

Yes — Whisper Large v3 Turbo is multimodal and accepts audio + text inputs. Vision support requires a runner that handles its image-conditioning architecture.

Source: huggingface.co/openai/whisper-large-v3-turbo

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