Model comparison

whisper-medium.en vs whisper-medium

At Q4_K_M, whisper-medium.en is the smaller download — 504,025,856 bytes against 504,102,848.

From the file· summed bytes, KV per layer

Side by side

whisper-medium.enwhisper-medium
Parameters764M764M
Architecturewhisperwhisper
Layers2424
Native context
Mixture of expertsnono
Quantizations published619
Smallest quantization0.47 GiB0.25 GiB
Q4_K_M0.47 GiB0.47 GiB
Licenceapache-2.0apache-2.0

KV cache by context

the term that decides long-context viability
Contextwhisper-medium.enwhisper-mediumRatio
4,096
8,192
16,384
32,768
65,536
131,072