---
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](https://huggingface.co/primeline/whisper-tiny-german), converted for efficient inference with the [faster-whisper](https://github.com/SYSTRAN/faster-whisper) library.

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## 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)

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## 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

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## Installation
```bash
pip install faster-whisper
```

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