Top open speech-recognition models
Models that transcribe speech to text.
How this list works: ranked by Hugging Face downloads in the last 30 days, among models with 1,000+ downloads.
| # | Model | Author | Downloads (30 days) | Likes | Size | License | Commercial use | Runs on |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-japanese | jonatasgrosman | 15.8M | 108 | – | Apache 2.0 | Yes | GPU |
| 2 | whisperkit-coreml | argmaxinc | 12M | 251 | – | MIT | Yes | CPU or GPU |
| 3 | speaker-diarization-3.1 | pyannote | 6.8M | 4.5K | – | MIT | Yes | CPU or GPU |
| 4 | whisper-large-v3-turbo | openai | 6.1M | 3.5K | – | MIT | Yes | GPU |
| 5 | speaker-diarization-community-1 | pyannote | 5.1M | 3.1K | – | CC BY 4.0 | Yes, with conditions | CPU or GPU |
| 6 | faster-whisper-small | Systran | 4.6M | 73 | – | MIT | Yes | CPU or GPU |
| 7 | wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-portuguese | jonatasgrosman | 4.5M | 69 | – | Apache 2.0 | Yes | GPU |
| 8 | wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-russian | jonatasgrosman | 4.2M | 85 | – | Apache 2.0 | Yes | GPU |
| 9 | whisper-large-v3 | openai | 3.8M | 6.7K | – | Apache 2.0 | Yes | GPU |
| 10 | whisper-small | openai | 3.5M | 632 | – | Apache 2.0 | Yes | GPU |
| 11 | wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-polish | jonatasgrosman | 3M | 21 | – | Apache 2.0 | Yes | GPU |
| 12 | parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3 | mlx-community | 2.5M | 67 | 600M | CC BY 4.0 | Yes, with conditions | CPU |
| 13 | wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-dutch | jonatasgrosman | 2.5M | 24 | – | Apache 2.0 | Yes | GPU |
| 14 | mms-300m-1130-forced-aligner | MahmoudAshraf | 2.4M | 116 | 300M | CC BY-NC 4.0 | No | GPU |
| 15 | faster-whisper-tiny | Systran | 2.3M | 32 | – | MIT | Yes | CPU or GPU |
| 16 | wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-greek | jonatasgrosman | 2.2M | 10 | – | Apache 2.0 | Yes | GPU |
| 17 | wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-arabic | jonatasgrosman | 2.2M | 64 | – | Apache 2.0 | Yes | GPU |
| 18 | wav2vec2-indonesian-javanese-sundanese | indonesian-nlp | 2.1M | 21 | – | Apache 2.0 | Yes | GPU |
| 19 | Voxtral-Mini-4B-Realtime-2602 | mistralai | 2.1M | 1K | 4B | Apache 2.0 | Yes | GPU |
| 20 | wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-hungarian | jonatasgrosman | 1.9M | 13 | – | Apache 2.0 | Yes | GPU |
| 21 | nemotron-3.5-asr-streaming-0.6b-gguf | handy-computer | 1.9M | 21 | 600M | Custom (other) | Check the license | CPU |
| 22 | parakeet-unified-en-0.6b-gguf | handy-computer | 1.9M | 15 | 600M | Custom (other) | Check the license | CPU |
| 23 | wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-chinese-zh-cn | jonatasgrosman | 1.7M | 142 | – | Apache 2.0 | Yes | GPU |
| 24 | wav2vec2-base-960h | 1.7M | 410 | – | Apache 2.0 | Yes | GPU | |
| 25 | whisper-base | openai | 1.7M | 306 | – | Apache 2.0 | Yes | GPU |
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