Whisper tiny requirements, license & speed

Key facts

License

apache-2.0 source

Commercial use

Yes source

Apache-2.0 on HF card; MIT on GitHub

Parameters

38M source

safetensors parameter count

Minimum memory

~1 GB VRAM source

Runs on CPU

Yes source

Whisper models run on CPU via faster-whisper int8

Streaming

No source

30-second window model; streaming only via wrappers

Voice cloning

n/a (speech-to-text)

Languages

en, zh, de, es, ru, ko, fr, ja, pt, tr, pl, ca, nl, ar, sv, it, id, hi, fi, vi, he, uk, el, ms, cs, ro, da, hu, ta, no, th, ur, hr, bg, lt, la, mi, ml, cy, sk, te, fa, lv, bn, sr, az, sl, kn, et, mk, br, eu, is, hy, ne, mn, bs, kk, sq, sw, gl, mr, pa, si, km, sn, yo, so, af, oc, ka, be, tg, sd, gu, am, yi, lo, uz, fo, ht, ps, tk, nn, mt, sa, lb, my, bo, tl, mg, as, tt, haw, ln, ha, ba, jw, su source

Released

2022-09-26 source

Hugging Face repo creation date (proxy for release date)

Gated on HF

No