Distil-Whisper
Distilled version of Whisper that is 6x faster with minimal accuracy loss.
About
Distil-Whisper by Hugging Face is a distilled version of OpenAI Whisper for English speech recognition that runs about six times faster and is roughly half the size while staying within one percent word error rate on out-of-distribution audio. The distil-large-v3 checkpoint is the recommended option, and training code is provided. It suits latency-sensitive production transcription. Released under the MIT license.
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Details
- Price
- Free
- Platform
- Local/Desktop
- Difficulty
- Easy (2/5)
- License
- MIT
- Added
- Apr 3, 2026
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