lite-whisper-small-fast (ONNX)

This is an ONNX version of willopcbeta/lite-whisper-small-fast. It was automatically converted and uploaded using this Hugging Face Space.

Usage with Transformers.js

See the pipeline documentation for automatic-speech-recognition: https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers.js/api/pipelines#module_pipelines.AutomaticSpeechRecognitionPipeline

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Lite-Whisper is a compressed version of OpenAI Whisper with LiteASR. See our GitHub repository and paper for details.

This model revised the name of “efficient-speech/lite-whisper-small-fast” and merged any missing files to facilitate subsequent conversion to ONNX format or for other purposes.

Benchmark Results

Following is the average word error rate (WER) evaluated on the ESB datasets:

Citation

If you use LiteASR in your research, please cite the following paper:

@misc{kamahori2025liteasrefficientautomaticspeech,
      title={LiteASR: Efficient Automatic Speech Recognition with Low-Rank Approximation}, 
      author={Keisuke Kamahori and Jungo Kasai and Noriyuki Kojima and Baris Kasikci},
      year={2025},
      eprint={2502.20583},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.LG},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.20583}, 
}