Model reference · open weights
whisper-large-german is an open-weight audio or speech model from primeline. whisper-large-v3-german (BF16) weighs 3.1 GB; the smallest configuration that runs it is RTX 3060 12 GB.
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Summary of the primeline/whisper-large-v3-turbo-german model card, 2026-10-01. The estimate below is for another build of the family.
What it is
| Released by | primeline |
|---|---|
| Released | 2024-10-02 |
| Parameters | 809M |
| VRAM | 3.1 GB 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 |
Builds
| Build | Params | Precision | Weights | Smallest setup |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| whisper-large-v3-turbo-german ↗ | 809M | BF16 | 1.6 GB | RTX 3060 12 GB |
| whisper-large-v3-german (above) ↗ | 1.5B | BF16 | 3.1 GB | RTX 3060 12 GB |
From the model card
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.
This model can be used in various application areas, including
| Model | Parameters | link |
|---|---|---|
| Whisper large v3 german | 1.54B | link |
| Whisper large v3 turbo german | 809M | link |
| Distil-whisper large v3 german | 756M | link |
| tiny whisper | 37.8M | link |
| Dataset | openai-whisper-large-v3-turbo | openai-whisper-large-v3 | primeline-whisper-large-v3-german | nyrahealth-CrisperWhisper (large) | primeline-whisper-large-v3-turbo-german |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tuda-De | 8.300 | 7.884 | 7.711 | 5.148 | 6.441 |
| common_voice_19_0 | 3.849 | 3.484 | 3.215 | 1.927 | 3.200 |
| multilingual librispeech | 3.203 | 2.832 | 2.129 | 2.815 | 2.070 |
| All | 3.649 | 3.279 | 2.734 | 2.662 | 2.628 |
The data and code for evaluations are available here
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.
The training of the model was performed with the following hyperparameters
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
As published on the model card: the maker's own numbers, not measured by AxForge.
| Task | Dataset | Metric | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| Speech Recognition | German ASR Data-Mix | Test WER |