whisper-small

Model facts

Hub id

openai/whisper-small

Likes

632

Downloads (last 30 days)

3,479,458

Task

Speech recognition

Library

transformers

Parameters

242M (241,734,912)

License

Apache 2.0 (apache-2.0)

Access

Open download

Author

openai · Organization

Languages

30 languages

Created

Sep 26, 2022

Last modified

Feb 29, 2024

Rank #659 of 4,320 models in AI on Hugging Face, by likes. Data from the Hugging Face Hub API, fetched Oct 18, 2026. Likes measure popularity, not quality or safety. Downloads are for the last 30 days, as the Hub reports them; counts change daily. A listing is not an endorsement. How this list is made

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