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distil-large-v3.5
Distilled, faster English version of Whisper large-v3 from Hugging Face under the MIT license.
- Hugging Face
- Open weights
Where it ranks
- ATranscriptionModels · Local · 6.8% on Hugging Face Open ASR Leaderboard (English, short-form average WER) (secondary benchmark)
Facts
- Vendor
- Hugging Face
- Family
- Distil-Whisper
- Released
- —
- Weights
- Open: download and run it yourself
- License
- MIT
- Parameters
- 0.756B
- GPU memory to run locally
- ~2 GB (Derived: about 0.76B parameters is roughly 1.5 GB of bf16 weights plus runtime overhead; not an official requirement.)
- Access
- Free (open weights)
- Last verified
- 19 Oct 2026
Benchmark results
| Benchmark | Result | Entry on the leaderboard | As of | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hugging Face Open ASR Leaderboard (English, short-form average WER) | 6.8% | distil-whisper/distil-large-v3.5Average WER over the board's default datasets (English short-form, version 17-10-2026); rank 35 of 56; read from the Space's /config table data. | 17 Oct 2026 | huggingface.co |
Where you can use it
No tracked tool lists this model yet; as open weights it runs in local runtimes.