Model guide
Whisper Medium Q5_0 for dictation on Mac
OpenAI's multilingual Whisper Medium, quantized to 5 bits in the whisper.cpp GGML format.
Measured in Codictate on an Apple M4 Max, at least 902 recordings per language
- Word accuracy
- 90.8%
- Wait per second of audio
- 65 ms
- Peak RAM
- 878 MB
- Download
- 514 MB
- Languages
- All Whisper languages
- Translates to English
- Yes
Whisper Medium Q5_0 accuracy by language
The share of words transcribed correctly, so higher is better. English comes from LibriSpeech audiobooks, the other languages from FLEURS read speech.
| Language | Word accuracy |
|---|---|
| English (clean) | 96.4% |
| English (noisy) | 93.2% |
| Spanish | 96.1% |
| Danish | 78.5% |
| Hungarian | 72.8% |
Word accuracy above is pooled over English (clean), English (noisy), Spanish, Danish, Hungarian: total word errors over total words spoken, not an average of the rows.
The Whisper Medium Q5_0 model file
The file is ggml-medium-q5_0.bin, published at ggerganov/whisper.cpp on Hugging Face. You do not have to fetch it yourself: pick the model in Codictate's Settings and the app downloads it for you.
How it compares
Every model with a guide, from the same recordings. Wait is milliseconds per second of audio, so lower is better.
| Model | Word accuracy | Wait per second of audio | Peak RAM | Download | Languages |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Whisper Large V3 Turbo Q5_0 | 93.5% | 66 ms | 778 MB | 574 MB | All Whisper languages |
| Whisper Large V3 Q5_0 | 94.0% | 106 ms | 1.5 GB | 1.1 GB | All Whisper languages |
| Whisper Large V3 | 94.0% | 164 ms | 3.5 GB | 3.0 GB | All Whisper languages |
| Whisper Large V3 Turbo | 93.6% | 93 ms | 1.9 GB | 1.6 GB | All Whisper languages |
| Whisper Medium Q5_0 | 90.8% | 65 ms | 878 MB | 514 MB | All Whisper languages |
| Whisper Small Q5_1 | 80.7% | - | 383 MB | 181 MB | All Whisper languages |
| Parakeet TDT 0.6B v3 | 92.0% | 11 ms | 80 MB | 500 MB | 25 |
| Hviske v5 Tiny Q5_0 | 88.7% (Danish) | 18 ms | 327 MB | 181 MB | Danish |
| Edda v0.2 Q5_0 | 92.5% (Danish) | 53 ms | 787 MB | 547 MB | Danish |
Which model to pick · All benchmarks, including Wispr Flow · How we measure · Whisper Medium Q5_0 benchmark (Sep 2026)
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