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Not realtime (RTF 2.28)
apple-m1-pro · faster-whisper · whisper-medium
WER 4.3% · Latency 6293 ms (p50)
RAM 2.1 GB
Est. concurrent realtime streams: 0
✓ verified· 1 run· newest 2026-08-03T12:39:51Z· whisper-medium-es-streaming@1.0.0· fleurs-es@1.0.0
Details
- CPU:
- 445%
- cpu_pct_p50:
- 444.97
- cpu_pct_p95:
- 444.99
- end_of_speech_latency:
- 3474 ms
- End of speech (p50):
- 3198 ms
- End of speech (p95):
- 4668 ms
- first_final_latency:
- 6852 ms
- First final (p95):
- 13782 ms
- first_partial_latency:
- 3123 ms
- First partial (p50):
- 3164 ms
- First partial (p95):
- 3539 ms
- Partial stability:
- 0.90
- partial_stability_p50:
- 0.90
- partial_stability_p95:
- 0.90
- ram_mb_p50:
- 2117.15
- ram_mb_p95:
- 2156.92
- real_time_factor_p50:
- 2.28
- real_time_factor_p95:
- 2.28
- Streaming responsiveness:
- 0.32
- streaming_responsiveness_p50:
- 0.32
- streaming_responsiveness_p95:
- 0.32
- Update frequency:
- 1.11
- update_frequency_p50:
- 1.11
- update_frequency_p95:
- 1.11
- wer_p50:
- 0.04
- wer_p95:
- 0.04
| Alternative | WER | RTF | Energy | Differs |
|---|---|---|---|---|
whisper-medium · faster-whisper · apple-m1-pro ✓ verified· 1 run· newest 2026-08-03T13:17:58Z· whisper-medium-pt-streaming@1.0.0· fleurs-pt@1.0.0 | 5.5% | 2.31 | — | pack, different language |
whisper-medium · whisper-cpp · apple-m1-pro ✓ verified· 1 run· newest 2026-08-03T14:56:23Z· whispercpp-medium-es-streaming@1.0.0· fleurs-es@1.0.0 | 5.7% | 0.73 | — | different runtime |
whisper-medium · whisper-cpp · apple-m1-pro ✓ verified· 1 run· newest 2026-08-03T15:07:22Z· whispercpp-medium-pt-streaming@1.0.0· fleurs-pt@1.0.0 | 5.7% | 0.63 | — | pack, different runtime, different language |
whisper-medium · whisper-cpp · apple-m1-pro ✓ verified· 1 run· newest 2026-08-03T14:49:06Z· whispercpp-medium-de-streaming@1.0.0· fleurs-de@1.0.0 | 6.4% | 0.73 | — | pack, different runtime, different language |
whisper-medium · faster-whisper · apple-m1-pro ✓ verified· 1 run· newest 2026-08-03T12:26:52Z· whisper-medium-en-streaming@1.1.0· librispeech-en@1.0.0 | 11.0% | 2.52 | — | pack, different language |
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