Model library / Speech to text
Whisper large-v3: GPU requirements and hosting
A speech recognition checkpoint for transcription and speech translation. It serves an audio workflow rather than a text chat endpoint.
Sources reviewed 2026-09-30 · B3IQ engineering
Checkpoint overview.
Model creator
OpenAI- Task in catalog
- Speech to text
- Approx. total parameters (catalog)
- Not specified
- Runtime families
- xinference · localai
- Model license
- Apache-2.0 ↗
- Upstream access at review
- No repository access gate reported
- Canonical checkpoint
- openai/whisper-large-v3 ↗
The creator identifies the original checkpoint. Runtime profiles may use separately packaged artifacts; their publishers and configuration can differ. Check the selected profile below.
Runtime profiles and requirements
The Xinference profile explicitly names large-v3. LocalAI uses a generic whisper-large artifact name, so confirm its resolved checkpoint before treating the profiles as equivalent.
xinference · audio-whisper-v3-xinference
- Catalog GPU threshold
- 6 GB
- Configured context
- 4,096 tokens
- Catalog system RAM
- 8 GB
- Runtime
- xinference
- Artifact identifier
whisper-large-v3- Precision
- Not pinned in catalog
- Configured concurrency
- 1 request(s)
- Profile inputs / outputs
- audio → text
- Deployed artifact revision
- Not verified
Catalog thresholds are configuration guidance, not measured peak memory. A positive GPU requirement is not recorded for every profile; unspecified is not zero. Context, concurrency and runtime overhead can increase memory use. Configured context is a profile setting, not the upstream maximum. Concurrency is configuration, not a load-test result.
localai · audio-whisper-large-localai
- Catalog GPU threshold
- Not specified
- Configured context
- 4,096 tokens
- Catalog system RAM
- 8 GB
- Runtime
- localai
- Artifact identifier
whisper-large- Precision
- Not pinned in catalog
- Configured concurrency
- 1 request(s)
- Profile inputs / outputs
- audio → text
- Deployed artifact revision
- Not verified
Catalog thresholds are configuration guidance, not measured peak memory. A positive GPU requirement is not recorded for every profile; unspecified is not zero. Context, concurrency and runtime overhead can increase memory use. Configured context is a profile setting, not the upstream maximum. Concurrency is configuration, not a load-test result.
Weight-only arithmetic and a planning estimate
The shared catalog does not record a parameter count for this profile. No weight-memory estimate is published.
This arithmetic does not describe the selected quantized artifact. It excludes a workload-specific KV-cache calculation and cannot guarantee fit at the configured context or concurrency. A mixture-of-experts model still stores its full weights.
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Measure word error rate and processing time on recordings with your accents, noise and language mix. Report audio duration and batching with any speed result.
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Evidence available
- Upstream identity / license
- Source reviewed
- Runtime settings
- Catalog configuration
- Memory fit
- Guidance; not a measured peak
- B3IQ performance
- No published benchmark
- Installation / live capacity
- Confirm for your machine
Source and access.
- Upstream checkpoint
- openai/whisper-large-v3 ↗
- Upstream license metadata
- Apache-2.0 ↗
- Access
- No access gate reported by the upstream repository at review.
- Reviewed source revision
06f233fe06e710322aca913c1bc4249a0d71fce1↗
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Guide updates and corrections.
These are changes to the guide. Source-review dates and workload-test evidence are recorded separately.
- · Update
Added creator attribution and a canonical checkpoint overview. The guide now explains how the original creator differs from a runtime artifact publisher.
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