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Best models

Ranked by fit to the task, adoption and reported results. Hosted models are paid APIs; the rest can be downloaded.

1. 1
   handy-computer/whisper-medium-gguf

   matches transcribe, speech, whisper, asr · built for automatic speech recognition · 676,460 downloads

2. 2
   handy-computer/whisper-large-v3-gguf

   matches transcribe, speech, whisper, asr · built for automatic speech recognition · 672,748 downloads

3. 3
   handy-computer/whisper-large-v3-turbo-gguf

   matches transcribe, speech, whisper, asr · built for automatic speech recognition · 669,045 downloads

4. 4
   argmaxinc/whisperkit-coreml

   matches speech, whisper, asr · built for automatic speech recognition · 48,681,256 downloads · mit license

5. 5
   CohereLabs/cohere-transcribe-arabic-07-2026

   matches transcribe, speech, transcription, asr · built for automatic speech recognition · 236,444 downloads · 16 entries link to it · apache-2.0 license

6. 6
   argmaxinc/parakeetkit-pro

   matches speech, transcription, whisper, asr · built for automatic speech recognition · 200,472 downloads · other license

Research to read

1. 1
   WhisperAlign: Word-Boundary-Aware ASR and WhisperX-Anchored Pyannote Diarization for Long-Form Bengali Speech

   matches speech, whisper, asr

2. 2
   BaltiVoice: A Speech Corpus and Fine-tuned Whisper ASR System for the Balti Language

   matches speech, whisper, asr

3. 3
   Speech event detector: Timestamped detection of non-verbal vocalizations and background sounds for rich speech transcription

   matches speech, transcription

4. 4
   On the Role of Encoder Depth: Pruning Whisper and LoRA Fine-Tuning in SLAM-ASR

   matches whisper, asr

5. 5
   A Speech Corpus for Mizo Automatic Speech Recognition: Whisper and SraVaani 1.0 Fine-Tuning with Morphology-Aware Evaluation

   matches speech, whisper

6. 6
   Whisper: Courtside Edition Enhancing ASR Performance Through LLM-Driven Context Generation

   matches whisper, asr

Open-source tools and code

1. 1
   sherpa-onnx-node

   matches speech, transcription, asr · 4,006,775 GitHub stars · Apache-2.0 license

2. 2
   FunASR

   matches speech, transcription, whisper, asr · 20,948 GitHub stars · MIT license

3. 3
   sherpa-onnx-linux-x64

   matches speech, transcription, asr · 3,121,050 GitHub stars · Apache-2.0 license

4. 4
   SenseVoice

   matches speech, transcription, whisper, asr · 9,701 GitHub stars · MIT license

5. 5
   FunClip

   matches speech, transcription, whisper, asr · 6,499 GitHub stars · MIT license

6. 6
   sherpa-onnx-win-x64

   matches speech, transcription, asr · 938,215 GitHub stars · Apache-2.0 license

Datasets

1. 1
   japanese-asr/whisper_transcriptions.reazon_speech_all

   matches speech, transcription, whisper · 91,750 downloads

2. 2
   japanese-asr/whisper_transcriptions.reazon_speech_all.wer_10.0.vectorized

   matches speech, transcription, whisper · 47,980 downloads

3. 3
   nmcuong/vietnamese-youtube-audio-transcribed-gemini-3.5-transcribe

   matches transcribe, speech, transcription · 8,029 downloads · other license

4. 4
   joujiboi/japanese-anime-speech-v2

   matches speech, whisper, asr · 3,429 downloads · gpl license

5. 5
   japanese-asr/whisper_transcriptions.reazonspeech.all

   matches speech, transcription, whisper · 4,648 downloads · 2 entries link to it

6. 6
   laion/small-overlapping-speech-bench

   matches speech, asr · 101,505 downloads · cc-by-4.0 license