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Q: What is this model?

openai/whisper-medium is an open-weights audio model for speech recognition published by openai, added to Hugging Bay Jun 29, 2026. Model from Hugging Face for automatic speech recognition: openai/whisper-medium · transformers

Q: Can I use it commercially?

It is released under the apache-2.0 license. Commercial use is allowed. Permissive open license: commercial use, modification, and redistribution are permitted.

Q: How big is it?

Hosted here: at least 16 listed files; full count and size unknown. Full repo upstream: 12.2 GB. The recommended download, model.safetensors, is 3.06 GB.

Q: What can I download here?

Hosted here: at least 16 listed files; full count and size unknown. Full repo upstream: 12.2 GB. The original release is at https://huggingface.co/openai/whisper-medium.

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Model details

speech recognitionLicense: apache-2.0Hashes recordedsafetensors · BIN · H5

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The catalog lists this model for transcribing speech. Catalog sources: license, cardMetadata.license, task, cardMetadata.pipelineTag.

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    "model.safetensors",
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