whisper large: transcribe.cpp GGUF GGUF conversions of openai/whisper large for use with transcribe.cpp. Ported from upstream commit 4ef9b41, pinned 2026 04 25. Validated against the transformers reference at transcribe.cpp commit 5.6.1 on 2026 04 26. OpenAI Whisper large — converted to GGUF for transcribe.cpp. Multilingual transcription, language detection, and speech translation (audio in any supported language → English text). Encoder decoder transformer; 30 second windows with chunked long form decoding. Downloads Quantization Download Size WER (LibriSpeech test clean) : : F32 whisper large F32.gguf 5.75 GB 2.72% F16 whisper large F16.gguf 2.89 GB 2.74% Q8 0 whisper large Q8 0.gguf 1.55 GB 2.74% Q6 K whisper large Q6 K.gguf 1.21 GB 2.62% Q5 K M whisper large Q5 K M.gguf 1.08 GB 2.70% Q4 K M whisper large Q4 K M.gguf 950 MB 2.67% WER measured on the full LibriSpeech test clean split (2620 utterances) with the transcribe.cpp default decode (greedy, suppress tokens, temperature fallback, segment timestamps enabled). OpenAI's self reported number on the same split is 2.73%. We don't know upstream's exact eval config, but the most likely cause of any divergence is that OpenAI's mode…
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