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769million parameters

The medium Whisper model has 769 million parameters.

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: Robust Speech Recognition via Large-Scale Weak Supervision, OpenAI, GitHub (OpenAI repository), 2023, Available models and languages table.

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What it measures
The model table in the README of the openai/whisper repository on GitHub, read on 2026-10-17.
What it does not show
The table lists the English-only and multilingual models. Speed values are measured on one GPU and vary with language and hardware.

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