Project AURIONAI Use-Cases Research & Innovation
speech recognitionfamily

Whisper

OpenAI multilingual ASR family; root of many fine-tunes and included in the FunASR model zoo.

OpenAI
Levelfamily
Classspeech recognition
Parametersnot in the notes
Contextnot in the notes
Releasednot in the notes
Opennessopen weights permissive
Runs onnot in the notes
Statusactive

Benchmark Results

maintainer-runindependent
Whisper large-v3average WER per Gladia, from the same leaderboardmaintainer-run
7.4
Whisper large-v3leadership historymaintainer-run
7.44
leader in 20232023 select.keenable.ai
Whisper large-v3-turboaverage WER per Gladia, from the same leaderboardmaintainer-run
7.75
02040

Score in WER. Lower is better.

IDSV (Indonesian Speech Variability)Southeast Asian and Indonesian
whisper-smallIDSV test, all, zero-shotindependent
13.84
0714

Score in CER. Lower is better.

Table 3Oct 2024 arxiv.org
whisper-smallIDSV test, all, zero-shotindependent
30.87
02040

Score in WER. Lower is better.

Table 3Oct 2024 arxiv.org
Where this comes from
Every score names who ran it: vendor-reported, maintainer-run or independent. A rank is shown with the population it was ranked in (gap rule 3).

Lineage

finetune
Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB)FT-whisper (IDSV) is a child (finetune)medium confidencenotes
OpenAIWhisper large-v3-turbo belongs to this familyspeech recognition2024809M
SYSTRANfaster-whisper-small belongs to this familyspeech recognition23 Nov 2023
SYSTRANfaster-whisper-tiny belongs to this familyspeech recognition23 Nov 2023
OpenAIWhisper large-v3 belongs to this familyspeech recognition20231.55B
OpenAIwhisper-large-v2 belongs to this familyspeech recognition5 Dec 20221.54B
OpenAIwhisper-base belongs to this familyspeech recognition26 Sep 202272.59M
OpenAIwhisper-medium belongs to this familyspeech recognition26 Sep 2022763.86M
OpenAIwhisper-small belongs to this familyspeech recognition26 Sep 2022
OpenAIwhisper-tiny belongs to this familyspeech recognition
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, 2 models. Confidence and evidence are the notes' own.

R&D Topics

Identity

Developer
OpenAI
Family
not in the notes
Released
– sources
Weights published
–
Record checked
10 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
autoregressive Transformer encoder-decoder
Total parameters
– 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
measured on a benchmark
Regional languages
not in the notes
Jakarta hosting
unknown
Languages
99+ languages
Where this comes from
Indonesia fields are carried on every model; unknown is an allowed value.

Industry Use Cases

No industry use case links this model.

Sources

  1. Gladia - Best open-source speech-to-text models in 2026 gladia.io https://www.gladia.io/blog/best-open-source-speech-to-text-models
  2. GitHub - modelscope/FunASR: Open-source speech recognition toolkit for training, inference, streaming ASR, VAD, punctuation, speaker diariza github.com https://github.com/modelscope/FunASR
  3. Enhancing Indonesian Automatic Speech Recognition: Evaluating Multilingual Models with Diverse Speech Variabilities arxiv.org https://arxiv.org/html/2410.08828v2

To cite this page: Project AURION, AI Use-Cases Research & Innovation, "Whisper", https://aurion.semai.id/models/openai-whisper/, records of October 2026.