List of OpenAI Whisper Checkpoints Variants

Official OpenAI Whisper has 12 unique checkpoint files , but the OpenAI Python package exposes 14 local model names because large and turbo are aliases for large-v3 and large-v3-turbo . The real confusion comes from aliases, runtimes, and converted formats. faster-whisper , CTranslate2 , whisper.cpp , ggml , q8 , q5 , ONNX , Core ML , etc. are