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List of OpenAI Whisper Checkpoints Variants

OpenAI Whisper has 12 unique checkpoint files, but the Python package exposes 14 local model names due to aliases for 'large' and 'turbo'. Additional confusion arises from runtimes and converted formats like faster-whisper, CTranslate2, whisper.cpp, ggml, q8, q5, ONNX, and Core ML.

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Official OpenAI Whisper has 12 unique checkpoint files, but the OpenAI Python package exposes 14 local model names because large

and turbo

are aliases for large-v3

and large-v3-turbo .

The real confusion comes from aliases, runtimes, and converted formats.

faster-whisper

, CTranslate2

, whisper.cpp

, ggml

, q8

, q5

, ONNX

, Core ML

, etc. are

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