Fact · Speech recognition
2times the speed of large
The medium Whisper model runs at about 2 times the relative speed of the large model.
Checked against its source on October 17, 2026
In the source's own words
“| medium | 769 M | `medium.en` | `medium` | ~5 GB | ~2x |”
openai/whisper: README (raw text), OpenAI, GitHub (openai/whisper), 2026, Available models and languages table.
Open the original- What it measures
- The speed is relative to the large model, measured on an A100 GPU for English speech.
- What it does not show
- A relative figure from one GPU. It is not a time for any particular recording.