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25seconds per hour of audio

An inverse real-time factor of 146 means the leaderboard engine processes about 146 seconds of audio for each second of compute, so one hour of audio takes about 25 seconds of compute time.

Checked against its source on October 17, 2026

How it is calculated
3600 / 146 = 24.7, rounded to 25. Benchmark throughput on batched audio, not the wait for one file

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Whisper Large v3 on the leaderboard: about 25 seconds per hour of audio | Yap