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Whisper tiny model: 39 million parameters

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39million parameters

The tiny Whisper model has 39 million parameters.

Checked against its source on October 17, 2026

In the source's own words

“tiny 39 M tiny.en tiny ~1 GB ~10x”

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.

Source

openai/whisper: Robust Speech Recognition via Large-Scale Weak SupervisionOther · OpenAI, GitHub (OpenAI repository), 2023

Used to calculate

The large Whisper model has about 40 times as many parameters as the tiny model.

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