{"v":1,"id":"model:hf:handy-computer/whisper-large-v3-gguf","slug":"model-handy-computer-whisper-large-v3-gguf","kind":"model","category":"speech","title":"whisper-large-v3-gguf","summary":"GGUF conversions of openai/whisper-large-v3 for use with transcribe.cpp.","source":{"provider":"hf","ref":"handy-computer/whisper-large-v3-gguf","url":"https://huggingface.co/handy-computer/whisper-large-v3-gguf","rev":"b33a05f1459f33b0c876f014a57d51618b77d754","fetchedAt":"2026-10-02T20:59:30.653Z","etag":"W/\"18c1-ri93cQPINH21t9TPKqZ0wbcgLwY\""},"author":{"name":"handy-computer","url":"https://huggingface.co/handy-computer"},"license":{"spdx":"apache-2.0","raw":"apache-2.0","open":true},"metrics":{"downloads":312631,"downloadsWeek":15195,"likes":2,"takenAt":"2026-10-02T20:59:30.653Z"},"tags":["transcribe.cpp","gguf","asr","speech-to-text","whisper","openai","automatic-speech-recognition","af","am","ar","as","az","ba","be","bg","bn","bo","br","bs","ca","cs","cy","da","de","el","en","es","et","eu","fa","fi","fo","fr","gl","gu","haw","ha","he","hi","hr"],"pipeline":"automatic-speech-recognition","links":{"github":"ggml-org/whisper.cpp","npm":"nodejs-whisper"},"updatedAt":"2026-09-15T07:05:47.000Z","collectedAt":"2026-10-02T20:59:30.653Z","review":{"numbers":["312,631 downloads on Hugging Face","2 likes","license apache-2.0","0.9 GB for whisper-large-v3-Q4_K_M.gguf","15,195 npm downloads a week for nodejs-whisper","latest nodejs-whisper@0.3.1"],"log":null},"trust":"unlabeled","health":{"status":"alive","checkedAt":"2026-10-02T20:59:30.653Z","http":200},"description":"# whisper-large-v3: transcribe.cpp GGUF\n\nGGUF conversions of [openai/whisper-large-v3](https://huggingface.co/openai/whisper-large-v3) for use\nwith [transcribe.cpp](https://github.com/handy-computer/transcribe.cpp).\n\nPorted from upstream commit\n[06f233f](https://huggingface.co/openai/whisper-large-v3/commit/06f233f),\npinned 2026-04-25.\nValidated against the transformers reference at transcribe.cpp commit\n[5.6.1](https://github.com/handy-computer/transcribe.cpp/tree/5.6.1)\non 2026-04-26.\n\nOpenAI Whisper large-v3 — converted to GGUF for transcribe.cpp. Multilingual transcription, language detection, and speech translation (audio in any supported language → English text). v3 family adds Cantonese (yue) and uses a 128-bin mel input. Encoder-decoder transformer; 30-second windows with chunked long-form decoding.\n\n## Downloads\n\n| Quantization | Download | Size | WER (LibriSpeech test-clean) |\n| --- | --- | ---: | ---: |\n| F16 | [whisper-large-v3-F16.gguf](https://huggingface.co/handy-computer/whisper-large-v3-gguf/resolve/main/whisper-large-v3-F16.gguf) | 3.11 GB | 1.81% |\n| Q8_0 | [whisper-large-v3-Q8_0.gguf](https://huggingface.co/handy-computer/whisper-large-v3-gguf/resolve/main/whisper-large-v3-Q8_0.gguf) | 1.67 GB | 1.82% |\n| Q6_K | [whisper-large-v3-Q6_K.gguf](https://huggingface.co/handy-computer/whisper-large-v3-gguf/resolve/main/whisper-large-v3-Q6_K.gguf) | 1.30 GB | 1.83% |\n| Q5_K_M | [whisper-large-v3-Q5_K_M.gguf](https://huggingface.co/handy-computer/whisper-large-v3-gguf/resolve/main/whisper-large-v3-Q5_K_M.gguf) | 1.16 GB | 1.84% |\n| Q4_K_M | [whisper-large-v3-Q4_K_M.gguf](https://huggingface.co/handy-computer/whisper-large-v3-gguf/resolve/main/whisper-large-v3-Q4_K_M.gguf) | 997 MB | 1.86% |\n\nWER 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.\n\nOpenAI's self-reported number…\n\nSource: https://huggingface.co/handy-computer/whisper-large-v3-gguf","install":{"kind":"model","hfId":"handy-computer/whisper-large-v3-gguf","gated":false,"format":"gguf","files":[{"name":"whisper-large-v3-F16.gguf","size":3107236640,"quant":"F16","sha256":"e633ab1d74b0e98f4f57daedaee34291297dbbf01389bda3d890766600c1c584"},{"name":"whisper-large-v3-Q4_K_M.gguf","size":997303008,"quant":"Q4_K_M","sha256":"6fe933811cec4cd3159debc46520ecd3aac6c7e322ece2ac61fcfdab184e1fe0"},{"name":"whisper-large-v3-Q5_K_M.gguf","size":1161143008,"quant":"Q5_K_M","sha256":"6053d0fd69a0fd48b8fea5ea7a52b9e0cde389343566fa30e453a1b2b258dc38"},{"name":"whisper-large-v3-Q6_K.gguf","size":1297130208,"quant":"Q6_K","sha256":"88e6dc60bd0538da145a50c19f4778e4a106fe28713adeeca43163215ee02805"},{"name":"whisper-large-v3-Q8_0.gguf","size":1668741440,"quant":"Q8_0","sha256":"2fa1a5f179f8a511a53e2108db270aa4af3ce08cd976af4180e2854666bb4ba3"}],"totalBytes":8231554304,"suggestedFile":"whisper-large-v3-Q4_K_M.gguf","requirements":{"ramGb":2,"diskBytes":997303008,"note":"estimate: suggested file size × 1.15 + 0.5 GB; a real measurement comes with lsh models"},"runWith":["whisper.cpp"],"command":"lsh models install hf:handy-computer/whisper-large-v3-gguf"}}