pbechhaus/whisper-tiny-german-ct2

Whisper Tiny German - CTranslate2

This model is a CTranslate2-optimized version of primeline/whisper-tiny-german, converted for efficient inference with the faster-whisper library.

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Model Details

• Base Model: primeline/whisper-tiny-german
• Format: CTranslate2 with FP16 quantization
• Language: German (de)
• Model Size: 72 MB
• Architecture: Whisper Tiny (39M parameters)

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Performance

Benchmarked on NVIDIA RTX 5090:

• Processing Speed: 46x real-time on average
• Average Latency: 0.108s per audio segment
• WER on FLEURS (de_de): 29.15%
• CER on FLEURS (de_de): 10.11%
• Reliability: 99% of samples processed without issues (9/862 problematic cases)
• Stability: No hallucination patterns detected

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Installation

pip install faster-whisper

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Acknowledgments

• Original Whisper model by OpenAI
• German fine-tuning by primeline
• CTranslate2 optimization framework by SYSTRAN