speech recognition
distil-small.en
Smallest Distil-Whisper checkpoint for English speech recognition on memory-constrained hardware.
Levelvariant
Classspeech recognition
Parameters166.13M
Contextnot in the notes
Released6 Dec 2023
Opennessopen weights permissive
Runs onCPU server, laptop
Statusactive
Identity
- Developer
- Hugging Face
- Family
- Distil-Whisper
- Released
- 6 Dec 2023 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
- 166.13M sources
- Active parameters
- –
- Checkpoint parameters
- –
- Note
- Smallest Distil-Whisper checkpoint (166M per the model card).
- 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
- CPU server, laptop
- Footprint
- Model card recommends it for memory-constrained use.
- 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.
Lineage
The notes record no lineage for this model.
Industry Use Cases
No industry use case links this model.
Links
DeveloperHugging Facestartup, USA / France
Hugging Facestartup, USA / FranceModeldistil-small.enHugging Face, speech recognition
distil-small.enHugging Face, speech recognitionUse Casesnone recorded
Who Runs Itnone recorded
Organisations 1
Sources
- huggingface.co/distil-whisper/distil-small.en https://huggingface.co/distil-whisper/distil-small.en
- arxiv.org/abs/2311.00430 https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.00430
To cite this page: Project AURION, AI Use-Cases Research & Innovation, "Distil-small.en", https://aurion.semai.id/models/hugging-face-distil-small-en/, records of October 2026.