Fact · Speech recognition
809million parameters
The turbo Whisper model has 809 million parameters.
Checked against its source on October 17, 2026
In the source's own words
“| turbo | 809 M | N/A | `turbo` | ~6 GB | ~8x |”
openai/whisper: README (raw text), OpenAI, GitHub (openai/whisper), 2026, Available models and languages table.
Open the original- What it measures
- Turbo has no English-only version. The large model has 1,550 million parameters.
- What it does not show
- Parameter count is a size measure, not a direct measure of accuracy.