---
license: apache-2.0
base_model:
- openai/whisper-large-v3-turbo
- sasikr2/whisper-large-v3-turbo
pipeline_tag: automatic-speech-recognition
tags: 
- ctranslate2
- whisper
- 100 languages
---
# Whisper Ctranslate2 
Whisper large-v3-turbo is distilled version of large-v3, only difference is number of decoder layers.
In turbo, there are only 4 decoder layers instead of 32 in large-v3.
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This repo contains the conversion of [whisper-large-v3-turbo openai checkpoint](https://github.com/openai/whisper) to [ctranslate2](https://github.com/OpenNMT/CTranslate2) format.

Command to convert safetensors to ctranslate format checkpoint : 
```ct2-transformers-converter --model sasikr2/whisper-large-v3-turbo  --output_dir whisper-large-v3-turbo-ct2 --quantization float16```

huggingface checkpoint: sasikr2/whisper-large-v3-turbo

## Parent source repo
[official github page](https://github.com/openai/whisper)