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Distil-Whisper

Hugging Face's distillation of Whisper. ~6× faster than the original at small accuracy cost; English-only — pick when you don't need multilingual.

Modality
Speech-To-Text
License
MIT (Open)
Parameter size
756M
Released
November 1, 2023
Last verified
May 10, 2026
Runs locally
Yes

Strengths

  • ~6× faster than the equivalent Whisper checkpoint
  • MIT-licensed
  • Drop-in compatible with Whisper inference code

Weaknesses

  • English-only — no multilingual support
  • Slight word-error-rate regression vs full Whisper

Try it

WhereTypeNotes
Hugging Face weights MIT

Used in solutions

How-to Local-OK

Transcribe audio at scale on a local machine

Official sources

Change log

  • — Initial entry.

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