Smallest audio models for NVIDIA T4 16GB (free Colab)

Verified open audio models that fit in 16 GB on NVIDIA T4 16GB (free Colab), smallest first — with license clarity and hosted-download status. Top pick: funasr/fsmn-vad (~1.87 GB).

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Verified open audio models that fit in 16 GB on NVIDIA T4 16GB (free Colab), smallest first — with license clarity and hosted-download status. Top pick: funasr/fsmn-vad (~1.87 GB).

#ModelEst. VRAMLicenseCommercialHostingFit page
1funasr/fsmn-vad~1.87 GBapache-2.0yesexternalcheck
2ginic/data_seed_bs64_4_wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-buckeye-ipa~1.87 GBmityesexternalcheck
3prj-beatrice/japanese-hubert-base-phoneme-ctc-v2~1.87 GBapache-2.0yesexternalcheck
4Kimang18/whisper-small-khmer-mlx-fp16-q4~1.87 GBapache-2.0yesexternalcheck
5Zyphra/ZONOS2~1.87 GBapache-2.0yesexternalcheck
6ayoubkirouane/whisper-small-ar~1.87 GBapache-2.0yesexternalcheck
7aman4014/whisper-bil-model-100k-ct2-int8_float16~1.87 GBmityesexternalcheck
8aTrain-core/faster-whisper-medium~1.87 GBmityesexternalcheck
9biraj-bhusal/rakshak-xlmr-large-v2~1.87 GBmityesexternalcheck
10royshilkrot/whisper-medium-korean-ggml~1.87 GBapache-2.0yesexternalcheck

Other GPUs: RTX 4090 24GB · RTX 3090 24GB · RTX 3060 12GB · A100 80GB · H100 80GB · mac-m3-max-64

Other tasks on NVIDIA T4 16GB (free Colab): coding · chat · reasoning · translation · summarization · vision · rag · agents

Fit = weights + KV-cache estimate under 16 GB. Recomputed hourly from live catalog state.