Model comparison
whisper-small.en vs parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v2
At Q4_K_M, whisper-small.en is the smaller download — 171,553,856 bytes against 475,491,840.
From the file· summed bytes, KV per layer
Side by side
| whisper-small.en | parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v2 | |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 242M | 618M |
| Architecture | whisper | parakeet |
| Layers | 12 | — |
| Native context | — | — |
| Mixture of experts | no | no |
| Quantizations published | 6 | 8 |
| Smallest quantization | 0.16 GiB | 0.37 GiB |
| Q4_K_M | 0.16 GiB | 0.44 GiB |
| Licence | apache-2.0 | cc-by-4.0 |
KV cache by context
the term that decides long-context viability
| Context | whisper-small.en | parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v2 | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4,096 | — | — | — |
| 8,192 | — | — | — |
| 16,384 | — | — | — |
| 32,768 | — | — | — |
| 65,536 | — | — | — |
| 131,072 | — | — | — |