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license: apache-2.0
language:
  - de
base_model:
  - primeline/whisper-tiny-german
pipeline_tag: automatic-speech-recognition
tags:
  - whisper
  - faster-whisper
  - ctranslate2
  - asr
  - german
  - audio
  - transcription
  - speech-to-text

Whisper Tiny German - CTranslate2

This model is a CTranslate2-optimized version of primeline/whisper-tiny-german, converted for efficient inference with the faster-whisper library.


Model Details

  • Base Model: primeline/whisper-tiny-german
  • Format: CTranslate2 with FP16 quantization
  • Language: German (de)
  • Model Size: 72 MB
  • Architecture: Whisper Tiny (39M parameters)

Performance

Benchmarked on NVIDIA RTX 5090:

  • Processing Speed: 46x real-time on average
  • Average Latency: 0.108s per audio segment
  • WER on FLEURS (de_de): 29.15%
  • CER on FLEURS (de_de): 10.11%
  • Reliability: 99% of samples processed without issues (9/862 problematic cases)
  • Stability: No hallucination patterns detected

Installation

pip install faster-whisper

Acknowledgments

  • Original Whisper model by OpenAI
  • German fine-tuning by primeline
  • CTranslate2 optimization framework by SYSTRAN