[r/LocalLLaMA] Qwen3 ASR seems to outperform Whisper in almost every aspect. It feels like there is little reason to keep using Whisper anymore.

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A recent comparison found that Qwen3 ASR 1.7B significantly outperforms Whisper Large Turbo and Voxtral Mini models in both speed and accuracy for real-time and offline transcription. The user suggests there's little reason to continue using Whisper, highlighting Qwen3 ASR's superior performance even without advanced acceleration like vLLM.

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