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whisper-large-german

Audio primeline Speech→text 2 builds Open weights 425k dl/mo

whisper-large-german is an open-weight audio or speech model from primeline. whisper-large-v3-turbo-german (BF16) weighs 1.6 GB; the smallest configuration that runs it is RTX 3060 12 GB.

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  • whisper-large-german is an automatic speech recognition model developed by primeline, fine-tuned from Whisper Large v3 for German language processing.
  • It contains 809M parameters and is licensed under apache-2.0.
  • The model supports transcription, voice commands, and subtitling in German.

Summary of the primeline/whisper-large-v3-turbo-german model card, 2026-10-01

What it is

Released byprimeline
Released2024-10-02
Parameters809M
VRAM1.6 GB for the weights

What it runs on

Memory and cards for whisper-large-v3-turbo-german (BF16)

1.6 GBweights, file size
1.6 GBruntime overhead
CardOne streamMemory
RTX 3060 12 GBfits11.6 GB
RTX 4060 Ti 16 GBfits15.4 GB
RTX 3090 24 GBfits23.4 GB
RTX 4090 24 GBfits23.4 GB
RTX 5090 32 GBfits31.0 GB
L40S 48 GBfits44.0 GB
A100 80 GBfits78.2 GB
H100 80 GBfits78.1 GB
RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 96 GBfits93.8 GB
DGX Spark (GB10) 128 GB unifiedfits107 GB
H200 141 GBfits138 GB
B200 180 GBfits176 GB

Builds

Sizes, precisions & builds

BuildParamsPrecisionWeightsSmallest setup
whisper-large-v3-turbo-german (above) ↗ 809MBF16 1.6 GBRTX 3060 12 GB
whisper-large-v3-german ↗ 1.5BBF16 3.1 GBRTX 3060 12 GB

From the model card

What primeline says about whisper-large-german

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Summary

This model map provides information about a model based on Whisper Large v3 that has been fine-tuned for speech recognition in German. Whisper is a powerful speech recognition platform developed by OpenAI. This model has been specially optimized for processing and recognizing German speech.

Applications

This model can be used in various application areas, including

  • Transcription of spoken German language
  • Voice commands and voice control
  • Automatic subtitling for German videos
  • Voice-based search queries in German
  • Dictation functions in word processing programs

Model family

ModelParameterslink
Whisper large v3 german1.54Blink
Whisper large v3 turbo german809Mlink
Distil-whisper large v3 german756Mlink
tiny whisper37.8Mlink

Evaluations - Word error rate

Datasetopenai-whisper-large-v3-turboopenai-whisper-large-v3primeline-whisper-large-v3-germannyrahealth-CrisperWhisper (large)primeline-whisper-large-v3-turbo-german
Tuda-De8.3007.8847.7115.1486.441
common_voice_19_03.8493.4843.2151.9273.200
multilingual librispeech3.2032.8322.1292.8152.070
All3.6493.2792.7342.6622.628

The data and code for evaluations are available here

Training data

The training data for this model includes a large amount of spoken German from various sources. The data was carefully selected and processed to optimize recognition performance.

Training process

The training of the model was performed with the following hyperparameters

  • Batch size: 12288
  • Epochs: 3
  • Learning rate: 1e-6
  • Data augmentation: No
  • Optimizer: Ademamix

How to use

import torch
from transformers import AutoModelForSpeechSeq2Seq, AutoProcessor, pipeline
from datasets import load_dataset
device = "cuda:0" if torch.cuda.is_available() else "cpu"
torch_dtype = torch.float16 if torch.cuda.is_available() else torch.float32
model_id = "primeline/whisper-large-v3-turbo-german"
model = AutoModelForSpeechSeq2Seq.from_pretrained(
    model_id, torch_dtype=torch_dtype, low_cpu_mem_usage=True, use_safetensors=True
)
model.to(device)
processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained(model_id)
pipe = pipeline(
    "automatic-speech-recognition",
    model=model,
    tokenizer=processor.tokenizer,
    feature_extractor=processor.feature_extractor,
    max_new_tokens=128,
    chunk_length_s=30,
    batch_size=16,
    return_timestamps=True,
    torch_dtype=torch_dtype,
    device=device,
)
dataset = load_dataset("distil-whisper/librispeech_long", "clean", split="validation")
sample = dataset[0]["audio"]
result = pipe(sample)
print(result["text"])

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Model author: Florian Zimmermeister

Disclaimer

This model is not a product of the primeLine Group.

It represents research conducted by [Florian Zimmermeister](https://huggingface.co/flozi00), with computing power sponsored by primeLine.

The model is published under this account by primeLine, but it is not a commercial product of primeLine Solutions GmbH.

Please be aware that while we have tested and developed this model to the best of our abilities, errors may still occur.

Use of this model is at your own risk. We do not accept liability for any incorrect outputs generated by this model.

Quoted from the model card on Hugging Face. The full card is behind the Hugging Face link above.

Benchmarks

Reported results

As published on the model card: the maker's own numbers, not measured by AxForge.

TaskDatasetMetricScore
Speech RecognitionGerman ASR Data-MixTest WER
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