| ## show available models | |
| ```python | |
| import whisper | |
| print(whisper.available_models()) | |
| ``` | |
| ## download model example | |
| ```python | |
| whisper.load_model('large-v3', download_root=r"D:\models\openai-whisper") | |
| ``` | |
| ## choose model | |
| | Size | Parameters | English-only model | Multilingual model | Required VRAM | Relative speed | | |
| |:------:|:----------:|:------------------:|:------------------:|:-------------:|:--------------:| | |
| | tiny | 39 M | `tiny.en` | `tiny` | ~1 GB | ~32x | | |
| | base | 74 M | `base.en` | `base` | ~1 GB | ~16x | | |
| | small | 244 M | `small.en` | `small` | ~2 GB | ~6x | | |
| | medium | 769 M | `medium.en` | `medium` | ~5 GB | ~2x | | |
| | large | 1550 M | N/A | `large` | ~10 GB | 1x | |