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whisper-small-gguf

Name: whisper-small-gguf
Author: handy-computer

by handy-computer · source Hugging Face · updated 2026-09-15

apache-2.0164 MB~1 GB RAMsource aliveunlabeled

GGUF conversions of openai/whisper-small for use with transcribe.cpp.

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Source and license

Source: https://huggingface.co/handy-computer/whisper-small-gguf
License: apache-2.0
Requirements: about 1 GB of RAM, 164 MB on disk (estimate: suggested file size × 1.15 + 0.5 GB; a real measurement comes with lsh models). Runs with whisper.cpp.
Tags: transcribe.cpp gguf asr speech-to-text whisper openai automatic-speech-recognition af am ar as az ba be bg bn

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46,305 downloads on Hugging Face
0 likes
license apache-2.0
0.2 GB for whisper-small-Q4_K_M.gguf
15,195 npm downloads a week for nodejs-whisper
latest nodejs-whisper@0.3.1

Numbers as of 2026-10-02 21:00 UTC, from the source API.

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Files

file	quant	size
`whisper-small-F16.gguf`	F16	470 MB
`whisper-small-F32.gguf`	F32	924 MB
`whisper-small-Q4_K_M.gguf`	Q4_K_M	164 MB
`whisper-small-Q5_K_M.gguf`	Q5_K_M	185 MB
`whisper-small-Q6_K.gguf`	Q6_K	202 MB
`whisper-small-Q8_0.gguf`	Q8_0	257 MB

From the source README

whisper-small: transcribe.cpp GGUF

GGUF conversions of openai/whisper-small for use
with transcribe.cpp.

Ported from upstream commit
973afd2,
pinned 2026-04-25.
Validated against the transformers reference at transcribe.cpp commit
5.6.1
on 2026-04-26.

OpenAI Whisper small — converted to GGUF for transcribe.cpp. Multilingual transcription, language detection, and speech translation (audio in any supported language → English text). Encoder-decoder transformer; 30-second windows with chunked long-form decoding.

Downloads

| Quantization | Download | Size | WER (LibriSpeech test-clean) |
| --- | --- | ---: | ---: |
| F32 | whisper-small-F32.gguf | 969 MB | 3.34% |
| F16 | whisper-small-F16.gguf | 493 MB | 3.33% |
| Q8_0 | whisper-small-Q8_0.gguf | 270 MB | 3.33% |
| Q6_K | whisper-small-Q6_K.gguf | 212 MB | 3.33% |
| Q5_K_M | whisper-small-Q5_K_M.gguf | 194 MB | 3.37% |
| Q4_K_M | whisper-small-Q4_K_M.gguf | 172 MB | 3.40% |

WER on the full LibriSpeech test-clean split (2,620 utterances), batch size 1, timestamps none. Figures without a commit were published before provenance was recorded.

OpenAI's se…

Source: https://huggingface.co/handy-computer/whisper-small-gguf

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