Project AURIONAI Use-Cases Research & Innovation
Hugging Face
speech recognition

distil-large-v3

Third Distil-Whisper English release, a knowledge-distilled version of Whisper large-v3.

Hugging FaceHugging FaceUSA / FranceDistil-WhisperFamily
Diagram of the Distil-Whisper architecture, a full Whisper encoder with a reduced decoder.
Levelvariant
Classspeech recognition
Parameters756.41M
Contextnot in the notes
Released21 Mar 2024
Opennessopen weights permissive
Runs onnot in the notes
Statusactive

Lineage

finetunedistillsuccessor
Whisper large-v3 to MERaLiON-2-10B: finetune, medium confidenceWhisper large-v3 to MERaLiON-2-3B: finetune, medium confidenceWhisper large-v3 to distil-large-v3: distill, high confidenceWhisper large-v3 to distil-large-v3.5: distill, high confidencedistil-large-v3 to distil-large-v3.5: successor, high confidenceWhisper large-v3Whisper large-v3OpenAI, 2023distil-large-v3distil-large-v3Hugging Face, Mar 2024MERaLiON-2-10BMERaLiON-2-10BA*STAR (Institute for Infocomm Re…MERaLiON-2-3BMERaLiON-2-3BA*STAR (Institute for Infocomm Re…distil-large-v3.5distil-large-v3.5Hugging Face, Dec 2024
OpenAIWhisper large-v3 is the parent (distill)high confidencemodel card
Hugging Facedistil-large-v3.5 is a child (successor)high confidencemodel card
Where this comes from
Parent and child relations from model cards, Hugging Face base_model fields and the genealogy tables of the research notes. The tree shows two generations each way, 5 models. Confidence and evidence are the notes' own.

R&D Topics

Streaming and low-latency speech recognitionproduced by

Identity

Developer
Hugging Face
Family
Distil-Whisper
Released
21 Mar 2024 sourcesregistry date
Weights published
–
Record checked
12 Oct 2026
Where this comes from
Developer and dates from the research notes. Release date is the vendor's public announcement; weights date is when open weights were published.

Architecture and Size

Architecture
dense transformer
Total parameters
756.41M sources
Active parameters
–
Checkpoint parameters
–
Context length
not in the notes
Input
audio
Output
text
Where this comes from
Parameter counts as the developer states them. Where the checkpoint holds a different total, both are shown (register A16).

Openness and Access

Openness
open weights permissive
Licence
MIT License sources
Access routes
open weights download
Where this comes from
The licence file governs over registry tags and aggregator labels.

Deployment

Runs on
not in the notes
Footprint
not in the notes
Runtimes
not in the notes
Where this comes from
Deployment tiers and runtimes as named in the notes. Footprint is the notes' figure, not a measurement by AURION.

Indonesia

Indonesian support
not stated
Regional languages
not in the notes
Jakarta hosting
unknown
Languages
English
Where this comes from
Indonesia fields are carried on every model; unknown is an allowed value.

Benchmark Results

The notes record no benchmark result for this model.

Industry Use Cases

No industry use case links this model.

Sources

  1. huggingface.co/distil-whisper/distil-large-v3 https://huggingface.co/distil-whisper/distil-large-v3
  2. arxiv.org/abs/2311.00430 https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.00430

To cite this page: Project AURION, AI Use-Cases Research & Innovation, "Distil-Large-v3", https://aurion.semai.id/models/hugging-face-distil-large-v3/, records of October 2026.