---
license: mit
base_model: openai/whisper-small
base_model_relation: quantized
language:
- en
- multilingual
pipeline_tag: automatic-speech-recognition
tags:
- automatic-speech-recognition
- whisper
- whisper.cpp
- ggml
- quantized
- on-device
---

# Whisper ggml models (availability mirror)

**This repository redistributes existing model weights unchanged.** It exists so that a
published mobile application has a distribution endpoint whose availability we control.
No model was trained, fine-tuned, or converted here.

## Provenance

| | |
|---|---|
| Original models | [OpenAI Whisper](https://github.com/openai/whisper) — **Copyright (c) 2022 OpenAI**, MIT License |
| ggml conversion & quantization | [ggerganov/whisper.cpp](https://huggingface.co/ggerganov/whisper.cpp) — **Copyright (c) 2023-2026 The ggml authors**, MIT License |
| This repository | Byte-identical copy of three files from the above. **No files were altered.** |

## Contents

| File | Source model | Quantization | Size |
|---|---|---|---|
| `ggml-base.en-q5_1.bin` | Whisper base.en | Q5_1 | ~57 MB |
| `ggml-small.en-q5_1.bin` | Whisper small.en | Q5_1 | ~190 MB |
| `ggml-small-q5_1.bin` | Whisper small (multilingual) | Q5_1 | ~190 MB |

Each file has been verified by SHA-256 against the upstream repository at the time of upload.

## License

**MIT**, inherited from both upstream projects. The full text is included in this
repository: [LICENSE](./LICENSE).

- OpenAI Whisper — Copyright (c) 2022 OpenAI
- whisper.cpp / ggml — Copyright (c) 2023-2026 The ggml authors

The MIT License permits redistribution provided the copyright notice and permission
notice are retained, which this repository does.