How is whisper-small larger than whisper-base? 967 MB vs 290 MB
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by apssg96 - opened
Looking at the Files and versions I see that this model's weights is 967 MB while the base version is only 290 MB. Why is this?
Well, it has more params
Size Parameters Multilingual model Required VRAM Relative speed
base 74 M base ~1 GB ~16x
small 244 M small ~2 GB ~6x