Model reference · open weights
PhoWhisper-tiny is an open-weight audio or speech model from vinai. PhoWhisper-tiny (BF16) weighs 151 MB; the smallest configuration that runs it is RTX 3060 12 GB.
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Summary of the vinai/PhoWhisper-tiny model card, 2026-10-01
What it is
| Released by | vinai |
|---|---|
| Released | 2024-02-18 |
| VRAM | 151 MB for the weights |
What it runs on
| Card | One stream | Memory |
|---|---|---|
| RTX 3060 12 GB | fits | 11.6 GB |
| RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB | fits | 15.4 GB |
| RTX 3090 24 GB | fits | 23.4 GB |
| RTX 4090 24 GB | fits | 23.4 GB |
| RTX 5090 32 GB | fits | 31.0 GB |
| L40S 48 GB | fits | 44.0 GB |
| A100 80 GB | fits | 78.2 GB |
| H100 80 GB | fits | 78.1 GB |
| RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 96 GB | fits | 93.8 GB |
| DGX Spark (GB10) 128 GB unified | fits | 107 GB |
| H200 141 GB | fits | 138 GB |
| B200 180 GB | fits | 176 GB |
From the model card
We introduce PhoWhisper in five versions for Vietnamese automatic speech recognition. PhoWhisper's robustness is achieved through fine-tuning the multilingual Whisper on an 844-hour dataset that encompasses diverse Vietnamese accents. Our experimental study demonstrates state-of-the-art performances of PhoWhisper on benchmark Vietnamese ASR datasets. Please cite our PhoWhisper paper when it is used to help produce published results or is incorporated into other software:
@inproceedings{PhoWhisper,
title = {{PhoWhisper: Automatic Speech Recognition for Vietnamese}},
author = {Thanh-Thien Le and Linh The Nguyen and Dat Quoc Nguyen},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the ICLR 2024 Tiny Papers track},
year = {2024}
}
For further information or requests, please go to PhoWhisper's homepage!
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