README.md

---
base_model: openai/whisper-large-v3
library_name: transformers
license: apache-2.0
pipeline_tag: automatic-speech-recognition
tags:
- audio
- automatic-speech-recognition
- whisper
- hf-asr-leaderboard
---

# Model Card for Lite-Whisper large-v3-fast

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Lite-Whisper is a compressed version of OpenAI Whisper with LiteASR. See our [GitHub repository](https://github.com/efeslab/LiteASR) and [paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.20583) for details. The paper is also available on Hugging Face: [Link to Hugging Face Paper Page](https://hf.co/papers/2502.20583)

## Benchmark Results

Following is the average word error rate (WER) evaluated on the [ESB datasets](https://huggingface.co/datasets/hf-audio/esb-datasets-test-only-sorted):\

| Model | Average WER (↓) | Encoder Size | Decoder Size |
|-------|----------------|--------------|--------------|
| [whisper-large-v3](https://huggingface.co/openai/whisper-large-v3) | 10.1 | 635M | 907M |
| [lite-whisper-large-v3-acc](https://huggingface.co/efficient-speech/lite-whisper-large-v3-acc) | 10.1 | 429M | 907M |
| [lite-whisper-large-v3](https://huggingface.co/efficient-speech/lite-whisper-large-v3) | 10.2 | 377M | 907M |
| [lite-whisper-large-v3-fast](https://huggingface.co/efficient-speech/lite-whisper-large-v3-fast) | 11.3 | 308M | 907M |
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| [whisper-large-v3-turbo](https://huggingface.co/openai/whisper-large-v3-turbo) | 10.1 | 635M | 172M |
| [lite-whisper-large-v3-turbo-acc](https://huggingface.co/efficient-speech/lite-whisper-large-v3-turbo-acc) | 10.2 | 421M | 172M |
| [lite-whisper-large-v3-turbo](https://huggingface.co/efficient-speech/lite-whisper-large-v3-turbo) | 12.6 | 374M | 172M |
| [lite-whisper-large-v3-turbo-fast](https://huggingface.co/efficient-speech/lite-whisper-large-v3-turbo-fast) | 20.1 | 313M | 172M |
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| [whisper-medium](https://huggingface.co/openai/whisper-medium) | 14.8 | 306M | 457M |