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Automatic Speech Recognition
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Whisper-Base-En: Optimized for Mobile Deployment

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) model for English transcription as well as translation

OpenAI’s Whisper ASR (Automatic Speech Recognition) model is a state-of-the-art system designed for transcribing spoken language into written text. It exhibits robust performance in realistic, noisy environments, making it highly reliable for real-world applications. Specifically, it excels in long-form transcription, capable of accurately transcribing audio clips up to 30 seconds long. Time to the first token is the encoder's latency, while time to each additional token is decoder's latency, where we assume a mean decoded length specified below.

This model is an implementation of Whisper-Base-En found here.

This repository provides scripts to run Whisper-Base-En on Qualcomm® devices. More details on model performance across various devices, can be found here.

Model Details

  • Model Type: Speech recognition
  • Model Stats:
    • Model checkpoint: base.en
    • Input resolution: 80x3000 (30 seconds audio)
    • Mean decoded sequence length: 112 tokens
    • Number of parameters (WhisperEncoder): 23.7M
    • Model size (WhisperEncoder): 90.6 MB
    • Number of parameters (WhisperDecoder): 48.6M
    • Model size (WhisperDecoder): 186 MB
Model Device Chipset Target Runtime Inference Time (ms) Peak Memory Range (MB) Precision Primary Compute Unit Target Model
WhisperDecoder Samsung Galaxy S23 Snapdragon® 8 Gen 2 TFLITE 37.916 ms 5 - 43 MB FP16 NPU Whisper-Base-En.tflite
WhisperDecoder Samsung Galaxy S23 Snapdragon® 8 Gen 2 QNN 4.223 ms 20 - 63 MB FP16 NPU Whisper-Base-En.so
WhisperDecoder Samsung Galaxy S23 Snapdragon® 8 Gen 2 ONNX 15.843 ms 0 - 116 MB FP16 NPU Whisper-Base-En.onnx
WhisperDecoder Samsung Galaxy S24 Snapdragon® 8 Gen 3 TFLITE 32.58 ms 4 - 82 MB FP16 NPU Whisper-Base-En.tflite
WhisperDecoder Samsung Galaxy S24 Snapdragon® 8 Gen 3 QNN 3.296 ms 20 - 75 MB FP16 NPU Whisper-Base-En.so
WhisperDecoder Samsung Galaxy S24 Snapdragon® 8 Gen 3 ONNX 13.657 ms 0 - 222 MB FP16 NPU Whisper-Base-En.onnx
WhisperDecoder Snapdragon 8 Elite QRD Snapdragon® 8 Elite TFLITE 27.503 ms 4 - 76 MB FP16 NPU Whisper-Base-En.tflite
WhisperDecoder Snapdragon 8 Elite QRD Snapdragon® 8 Elite QNN 2.646 ms 9 - 59 MB FP16 NPU Use Export Script
WhisperDecoder Snapdragon 8 Elite QRD Snapdragon® 8 Elite ONNX 12.074 ms 6 - 203 MB FP16 NPU Whisper-Base-En.onnx
WhisperDecoder QCS8550 (Proxy) QCS8550 Proxy TFLITE 38.524 ms 6 - 42 MB FP16 NPU Whisper-Base-En.tflite
WhisperDecoder QCS8550 (Proxy) QCS8550 Proxy QNN 4.167 ms 19 - 20 MB FP16 NPU Use Export Script
WhisperDecoder SA7255P ADP SA7255P TFLITE 67.034 ms 4 - 76 MB FP16 NPU Whisper-Base-En.tflite
WhisperDecoder SA7255P ADP SA7255P QNN 26.93 ms 9 - 19 MB FP16 NPU Use Export Script
WhisperDecoder SA8255 (Proxy) SA8255P Proxy TFLITE 38.064 ms 6 - 42 MB FP16 NPU Whisper-Base-En.tflite
WhisperDecoder SA8255 (Proxy) SA8255P Proxy QNN 4.245 ms 19 - 20 MB FP16 NPU Use Export Script
WhisperDecoder SA8295P ADP SA8295P TFLITE 40.976 ms 2 - 67 MB FP16 NPU Whisper-Base-En.tflite
WhisperDecoder SA8295P ADP SA8295P QNN 5.535 ms 18 - 24 MB FP16 NPU Use Export Script
WhisperDecoder SA8650 (Proxy) SA8650P Proxy TFLITE 38.218 ms 6 - 43 MB FP16 NPU Whisper-Base-En.tflite
WhisperDecoder SA8650 (Proxy) SA8650P Proxy QNN 4.172 ms 20 - 22 MB FP16 NPU Use Export Script
WhisperDecoder SA8775P ADP SA8775P TFLITE 38.342 ms 5 - 77 MB FP16 NPU Whisper-Base-En.tflite
WhisperDecoder SA8775P ADP SA8775P QNN 5.638 ms 18 - 28 MB FP16 NPU Use Export Script
WhisperDecoder QCS8450 (Proxy) QCS8450 Proxy TFLITE 42.473 ms 3 - 75 MB FP16 NPU Whisper-Base-En.tflite
WhisperDecoder QCS8450 (Proxy) QCS8450 Proxy QNN 5.146 ms 20 - 71 MB FP16 NPU Use Export Script
WhisperDecoder Snapdragon X Elite CRD Snapdragon® X Elite QNN 3.907 ms 20 - 20 MB FP16 NPU Use Export Script
WhisperDecoder Snapdragon X Elite CRD Snapdragon® X Elite ONNX 14.267 ms 107 - 107 MB FP16 NPU Whisper-Base-En.onnx
WhisperEncoder Samsung Galaxy S23 Snapdragon® 8 Gen 2 TFLITE 196.633 ms 35 - 110 MB FP16 GPU Whisper-Base-En.tflite
WhisperEncoder Samsung Galaxy S23 Snapdragon® 8 Gen 2 QNN 266.434 ms 0 - 77 MB FP16 NPU Whisper-Base-En.so
WhisperEncoder Samsung Galaxy S23 Snapdragon® 8 Gen 2 ONNX 300.379 ms 91 - 94 MB FP16 NPU Whisper-Base-En.onnx
WhisperEncoder Samsung Galaxy S24 Snapdragon® 8 Gen 3 TFLITE 157.913 ms 37 - 77 MB FP16 GPU Whisper-Base-En.tflite
WhisperEncoder Samsung Galaxy S24 Snapdragon® 8 Gen 3 QNN 186.485 ms 1 - 287 MB FP16 NPU Whisper-Base-En.so
WhisperEncoder Samsung Galaxy S24 Snapdragon® 8 Gen 3 ONNX 211.549 ms 94 - 982 MB FP16 NPU Whisper-Base-En.onnx
WhisperEncoder Snapdragon 8 Elite QRD Snapdragon® 8 Elite TFLITE 140.336 ms 37 - 60 MB FP16 GPU Whisper-Base-En.tflite
WhisperEncoder Snapdragon 8 Elite QRD Snapdragon® 8 Elite QNN 152.984 ms 0 - 304 MB FP16 NPU Use Export Script
WhisperEncoder Snapdragon 8 Elite QRD Snapdragon® 8 Elite ONNX 183.176 ms 96 - 640 MB FP16 NPU Whisper-Base-En.onnx
WhisperEncoder QCS8550 (Proxy) QCS8550 Proxy TFLITE 196.378 ms 34 - 110 MB FP16 GPU Whisper-Base-En.tflite
WhisperEncoder QCS8550 (Proxy) QCS8550 Proxy QNN 199.737 ms 0 - 21 MB FP16 NPU Use Export Script
WhisperEncoder SA7255P ADP SA7255P TFLITE 1160.066 ms 32 - 56 MB FP16 GPU Whisper-Base-En.tflite
WhisperEncoder SA7255P ADP SA7255P QNN 935.326 ms 1 - 11 MB FP16 NPU Use Export Script
WhisperEncoder SA8255 (Proxy) SA8255P Proxy TFLITE 200.355 ms 34 - 123 MB FP16 GPU Whisper-Base-En.tflite
WhisperEncoder SA8255 (Proxy) SA8255P Proxy QNN 217.297 ms 1 - 2 MB FP16 NPU Use Export Script
WhisperEncoder SA8295P ADP SA8295P TFLITE 204.198 ms 38 - 66 MB FP16 GPU Whisper-Base-En.tflite
WhisperEncoder SA8295P ADP SA8295P QNN 219.469 ms 1 - 7 MB FP16 NPU Use Export Script
WhisperEncoder SA8650 (Proxy) SA8650P Proxy TFLITE 200.209 ms 0 - 78 MB FP16 GPU Whisper-Base-En.tflite
WhisperEncoder SA8650 (Proxy) SA8650P Proxy QNN 213.794 ms 0 - 11 MB FP16 NPU Use Export Script
WhisperEncoder SA8775P ADP SA8775P TFLITE 367.334 ms 37 - 64 MB FP16 GPU Whisper-Base-En.tflite
WhisperEncoder SA8775P ADP SA8775P QNN 195.132 ms 0 - 6 MB FP16 NPU Use Export Script
WhisperEncoder QCS8450 (Proxy) QCS8450 Proxy TFLITE 284.098 ms 39 - 83 MB FP16 GPU Whisper-Base-En.tflite
WhisperEncoder QCS8450 (Proxy) QCS8450 Proxy QNN 283.131 ms 0 - 297 MB FP16 NPU Use Export Script
WhisperEncoder Snapdragon X Elite CRD Snapdragon® X Elite QNN 160.208 ms 0 - 0 MB FP16 NPU Use Export Script
WhisperEncoder Snapdragon X Elite CRD Snapdragon® X Elite ONNX 297.781 ms 133 - 133 MB FP16 NPU Whisper-Base-En.onnx

Installation

This model can be installed as a Python package via pip.

pip install "qai-hub-models[whisper_base_en]"

Configure Qualcomm® AI Hub to run this model on a cloud-hosted device

Sign-in to Qualcomm® AI Hub with your Qualcomm® ID. Once signed in navigate to Account -> Settings -> API Token.

With this API token, you can configure your client to run models on the cloud hosted devices.

qai-hub configure --api_token API_TOKEN

Navigate to docs for more information.

Demo off target

The package contains a simple end-to-end demo that downloads pre-trained weights and runs this model on a sample input.

python -m qai_hub_models.models.whisper_base_en.demo

The above demo runs a reference implementation of pre-processing, model inference, and post processing.

NOTE: If you want running in a Jupyter Notebook or Google Colab like environment, please add the following to your cell (instead of the above).

%run -m qai_hub_models.models.whisper_base_en.demo

Run model on a cloud-hosted device

In addition to the demo, you can also run the model on a cloud-hosted Qualcomm® device. This script does the following:

  • Performance check on-device on a cloud-hosted device
  • Downloads compiled assets that can be deployed on-device for Android.
  • Accuracy check between PyTorch and on-device outputs.
python -m qai_hub_models.models.whisper_base_en.export

Profiling Results
------------------------------------------------------------
WhisperDecoder
Device                          : Samsung Galaxy S23 (13)
Runtime                         : TFLITE                 
Estimated inference time (ms)   : 37.9                   
Estimated peak memory usage (MB): [5, 43]                
Total # Ops                     : 983                    
Compute Unit(s)                 : NPU (983 ops)          

------------------------------------------------------------
WhisperEncoder
Device                          : Samsung Galaxy S23 (13)   
Runtime                         : TFLITE                    
Estimated inference time (ms)   : 196.6                     
Estimated peak memory usage (MB): [35, 110]                 
Total # Ops                     : 419                       
Compute Unit(s)                 : GPU (408 ops) CPU (11 ops)

How does this work?

This export script leverages Qualcomm® AI Hub to optimize, validate, and deploy this model on-device. Lets go through each step below in detail:

Step 1: Compile model for on-device deployment

To compile a PyTorch model for on-device deployment, we first trace the model in memory using the jit.trace and then call the submit_compile_job API.

import torch

import qai_hub as hub
from qai_hub_models.models.whisper_base_en import Model

# Load the model
model = Model.from_pretrained()
decoder_model = model.decoder
encoder_model = model.encoder

# Device
device = hub.Device("Samsung Galaxy S23")

# Trace model
decoder_input_shape = decoder_model.get_input_spec()
decoder_sample_inputs = decoder_model.sample_inputs()

traced_decoder_model = torch.jit.trace(decoder_model, [torch.tensor(data[0]) for _, data in decoder_sample_inputs.items()])

# Compile model on a specific device
decoder_compile_job = hub.submit_compile_job(
    model=traced_decoder_model ,
    device=device,
    input_specs=decoder_model.get_input_spec(),
)

# Get target model to run on-device
decoder_target_model = decoder_compile_job.get_target_model()
# Trace model
encoder_input_shape = encoder_model.get_input_spec()
encoder_sample_inputs = encoder_model.sample_inputs()

traced_encoder_model = torch.jit.trace(encoder_model, [torch.tensor(data[0]) for _, data in encoder_sample_inputs.items()])

# Compile model on a specific device
encoder_compile_job = hub.submit_compile_job(
    model=traced_encoder_model ,
    device=device,
    input_specs=encoder_model.get_input_spec(),
)

# Get target model to run on-device
encoder_target_model = encoder_compile_job.get_target_model()

Step 2: Performance profiling on cloud-hosted device

After compiling models from step 1. Models can be profiled model on-device using the target_model. Note that this scripts runs the model on a device automatically provisioned in the cloud. Once the job is submitted, you can navigate to a provided job URL to view a variety of on-device performance metrics.

decoder_profile_job = hub.submit_profile_job(
    model=decoder_target_model,
    device=device,
)
encoder_profile_job = hub.submit_profile_job(
    model=encoder_target_model,
    device=device,
)

Step 3: Verify on-device accuracy

To verify the accuracy of the model on-device, you can run on-device inference on sample input data on the same cloud hosted device.

decoder_input_data = decoder_model.sample_inputs()
decoder_inference_job = hub.submit_inference_job(
    model=decoder_target_model,
    device=device,
    inputs=decoder_input_data,
)
decoder_inference_job.download_output_data()
encoder_input_data = encoder_model.sample_inputs()
encoder_inference_job = hub.submit_inference_job(
    model=encoder_target_model,
    device=device,
    inputs=encoder_input_data,
)
encoder_inference_job.download_output_data()

With the output of the model, you can compute like PSNR, relative errors or spot check the output with expected output.

Note: This on-device profiling and inference requires access to Qualcomm® AI Hub. Sign up for access.

Deploying compiled model to Android

The models can be deployed using multiple runtimes:

  • TensorFlow Lite (.tflite export): This tutorial provides a guide to deploy the .tflite model in an Android application.

  • QNN (.so export ): This sample app provides instructions on how to use the .so shared library in an Android application.

View on Qualcomm® AI Hub

Get more details on Whisper-Base-En's performance across various devices here. Explore all available models on Qualcomm® AI Hub

License

  • The license for the original implementation of Whisper-Base-En can be found here.
  • The license for the compiled assets for on-device deployment can be found here

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