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DistilWhisper Small (English)

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Distilled English-only Whisper Small — smallest Distil-Whisper checkpoint at 166M params with 4 decoder layers. Within 3% WER of Whisper Large v2 and 5.6x faster (relative latency vs Large v2), per the Distil-Whisper project's own evals. English-only alternative that trades multilingual coverage for accuracy on the language most demos use.

WebGPU
WASM
Streaming
MIT

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DistilWhisper Small (English)
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Technical Details

Architecture

Whisper (distilled encoder-decoder)

Parameters

166M

Model Size

172 MB

Languages

en

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