Whisper Large V3 Turbo
OpenAI
4.5x faster than Whisper Large V3 with minimal quality loss. Decoder reduced from 32 to 4 layers. Most-downloaded Whisper variant (4.6M+ monthly). Best speed/accuracy balance for local STT.
Speech-to-Text Local Latest Whisper Family vv3-turbo
Type
Speech-to-Text
Source
Local
License
MIT
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Whisper
Large V3 Turbo Current Latest
Speech-to-text, transcription, translation
Large v3 Latest
Speech-to-text
Capabilities
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Streaming
Local Model Specs
Architecture
Transformer Encoder-Decoder (4-layer decoder)
Runtime
faster-whisper / whisper.cpp
Disk Size
1.6 GB
Details
- Release Date
- October 1, 2024
- Knowledge Cutoff
- -
- Source
- Local
- License
- MIT
- Model ID
- whisper-large-v3-turbo-local
Last updated: March 13, 2026