Whisper Model Variants
OpenAI’s Whisper model family ranges from tiny (~75MB) to large-v3 (~3GB), with the large-v3-turbo variant offering the best speed/accuracy trade-off for local use. Model size and quantization directly affect memory requirements on a 16GB Mac Mini M2.
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