Models

We have two types of models - big and small, small models are ideal for some limited task on mobile applications. They can run on smartphones, Raspberry Pi’s. They are also recommended for desktop applications. Small model typically is around 50Mb in size and requires about 300Mb of memory in runtime. Big models are for the high-accuracy transcription on the server. Big models require up to 16Gb in memory since they apply advanced AI algorithms. Ideally you run them on some high-end servers like i7 or latest AMD Ryzen. On AWS you can take a look on c5a machines and similar machines in other clouds.

Most small model allow dynamic vocabulary reconfiguration. Big models are static the vocabulary can not be modified in runtime.

Model list

This is the list of models compatible with Vosk-API.

To add a new model here create an issue on Github.

Model Size Word error rate/Speed Notes License
English        
vosk-model-small-en-us-0.15 40M 9.85 (librispeech test-clean) 10.38 (tedlium) Lightweight wideband model for Android and RPi Apache 2.0
vosk-model-en-us-0.22 1.8G 5.69 (librispeech test-clean) 6.05 (tedlium) 29.78(callcenter) Accurate generic US English model Apache 2.0
vosk-model-en-us-0.22-lgraph 128M 7.82 (librispeech) 8.20 (tedlium) Big US English model with dynamic graph Apache 2.0
vosk-model-en-us-0.42-gigaspeech 2.3G 5.64 (librispeech test-clean) 6.24 (tedlium) 30.17 (callcenter) Accurate generic US English model trained by Kaldi on Gigaspeech. Mostly for podcasts, not for telephony Apache 2.0
English Other   Older Models    
vosk-model-en-us-daanzu-20200905 1.0G 7.08 (librispeech test-clean) 8.25 (tedlium) Wideband model for dictation from Kaldi-active-grammar project AGPL
vosk-model-en-us-daanzu-20200905-lgraph 129M 8.20 (librispeech test-clean) 9.28 (tedlium) Wideband model for dictation from Kaldi-active-grammar project with configurable graph AGPL
vosk-model-en-us-librispeech-0.2 845M TBD Repackaged Librispeech model from Kaldi, not very accurate Apache 2.0
vosk-model-small-en-us-zamia-0.5 49M 11.55 (librispeech test-clean) 12.64 (tedlium) Repackaged Zamia model f_250, mainly for research LGPL-3.0
vosk-model-en-us-aspire-0.2 1.4G 13.64 (librispeech test-clean) 12.89 (tedlium) 33.82(callcenter) Kaldi original ASPIRE model, not very accurate Apache 2.0
vosk-model-en-us-0.21 1.6G 5.43 (librispeech test-clean) 6.42 (tedlium) 40.63(callcenter) Wideband model previous generation Apache 2.0
Indian English        
vosk-model-en-in-0.5 1G 36.12 (NPTEL Pure) Generic Indian English model for telecom and broadcast Apache 2.0
vosk-model-small-en-in-0.4 36M 49.05 (NPTEL Pure) Lightweight Indian English model for mobile applications Apache 2.0
Chinese        
vosk-model-small-cn-0.22 42M 23.54 (SpeechIO-02) 38.29 (SpeechIO-06) 17.15 (THCHS) Lightweight model for Android and RPi Apache 2.0
vosk-model-cn-0.22 1.3G 13.98 (SpeechIO-02) 27.30 (SpeechIO-06) 7.43 (THCHS) Big generic Chinese model for server processing Apache 2.0
Chinese Other        
vosk-model-cn-kaldi-multicn-0.15 1.5G 17.44 (SpeechIO-02) 9.56 (THCHS) Original Wideband Kaldi multi-cn model from Kaldi with Vosk LM Apache 2.0
Russian        
vosk-model-ru-0.42 1.8G 4.5 (our audiobooks) 11.1 (open_stt audiobooks) 19.5 (open_stt youtube) 36.0 (openstt calls) 4.4 (golos crowd) 17.9 (sova devices) Big mixed band Russian model for servers Apache 2.0
vosk-model-small-ru-0.22 45M 22.71 (openstt audiobooks) 31.97 (openstt youtube) 29.89 (sova devices) 11.79 (golos crowd) Lightweight wideband model for Android/iOS and RPi Apache 2.0
Russian Other        
vosk-model-ru-0.22 1.5G 5.74 (our audiobooks) 13.35 (open_stt audiobooks) 20.73 (open_stt youtube) 37.38 (openstt calls) 8.65 (golos crowd) 19.71 (sova devices) Big mixed band Russian model for servers Apache 2.0
vosk-model-ru-0.10 2.5G 5.71 (our audiobooks) 16.26 (open_stt audiobooks) 26.20 (public_youtube_700_val open_stt) 40.15 (asr_calls_2_val open_stt) Big narrowband Russian model for servers Apache 2.0
French        
vosk-model-small-fr-0.22 41M 23.95 (cv test) 19.30 (mtedx) 27.25 (podcast) Lightweight wideband model for Android/iOS and RPi Apache 2.0
vosk-model-fr-0.22 1.4G 14.72 (cv test) 11.64 (mls) 13.10 (mtedx) 21.61 (podcast) 13.22 (voxpopuli) Big accurate model for servers Apache 2.0
French Other        
vosk-model-small-fr-pguyot-0.3 39M 37.04 (cv test) 28.72 (mtedx) 37.46 (podcast) Lightweight wideband model for Android and RPi trained by Paul Guyot CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0
vosk-model-fr-0.6-linto-2.2.0 1.5G 16.19 (cv test) 16.44 (mtedx) 23.77 (podcast) 0.4xRT Model from LINTO project AGPL
German        
vosk-model-de-0.21 1.9G 9.83 (Tuda-de test), 24.00 (podcast) 12.82 (cv-test) 12.42 (mls) 33.26 (mtedx) Big German model for telephony and server Apache 2.0
vosk-model-de-tuda-0.6-900k 4.4G 9.48 (Tuda-de test), 25.82 (podcast) 4.97 (cv-test) 11.01 (mls) 35.20 (mtedx) Latest big wideband model from Tuda-DE project Apache 2.0
vosk-model-small-de-zamia-0.3 49M 14.81 (Tuda-de test, 37.46 (podcast) Zamia f_250 small model repackaged (not recommended) LGPL-3.0
vosk-model-small-de-0.15 45M 13.75 (Tuda-de test), 30.67 (podcast) Lightweight wideband model for Android and RPi Apache 2.0
Spanish        
vosk-model-small-es-0.42 39M 16.02 (cv test) 16.72 (mtedx test) 11.21 (mls) Lightweight wideband model for Android and RPi Apache 2.0
vosk-model-es-0.42 1.4G 7.50 (cv test) 10.05 (mtedx test) 5.84 (mls) Big model for Spanish Apache 2.0
Portuguese/Brazilian Portuguese        
vosk-model-small-pt-0.3 31M 68.92 (coraa dev) 32.60 (cv test) Lightweight wideband model for Android and RPi Apache 2.0
vosk-model-pt-fb-v0.1.1-20220516_2113 1.6G 54.34 (coraa dev) 27.70 (cv test) Big model from FalaBrazil GPLv3.0
Greek        
vosk-model-el-gr-0.7 1.1G TBD Big narrowband Greek model for server processing, not extremely accurate though Apache 2.0
Turkish        
vosk-model-small-tr-0.3 35M TBD Lightweight wideband model for Android and RPi Apache 2.0
Vietnamese        
vosk-model-small-vn-0.4 32M 15.70 (Vivos test) Lightweight Vietnamese model Apache 2.0
vosk-model-vn-0.4 78M 15.70 (Vivos test) Bigger Vietnamese model for server Apache 2.0
Italian        
vosk-model-small-it-0.22 48M 16.88 (cv test) 25.87 (mls) 17.01 (mtedx) Lightweight model for Android and RPi Apache 2.0
vosk-model-it-0.22 1.2G 8.10 (cv test) 15.68 (mls) 11.23 (mtedx) Big generic Italian model for servers Apache 2.0
Dutch        
vosk-model-small-nl-0.22 39M 22.45 (cv test) 26.80 (tv) 25.84 (mls) 24.09 (voxpopuli) Lightweight model for Dutch Apache 2.0
Dutch Other        
vosk-model-nl-spraakherkenning-0.6 860M 20.40 (cv test) 32.64 (tv) 17.73 (mls) 19.96 (voxpopuli) Medium Dutch model from Kaldi_NL CC-BY-NC-SA
vosk-model-nl-spraakherkenning-0.6-lgraph 100M 22.82 (cv test) 34.01 (tv) 18.81 (mls) 21.01 (voxpopuli) Smaller model with dynamic graph CC-BY-NC-SA
Catalan        
vosk-model-small-ca-0.4 42M TBD Lightweight wideband model for Android and RPi for Catalan Apache 2.0
Arabic        
vosk-model-ar-mgb2-0.4 318M 16.40 (MGB-2 dev set) Repackaged Arabic model trained on MGB2 dataset from Kaldi Apache 2.0
vosk-model-ar-0.22-linto-1.1.0 1.3G 52.87 (cv test) 28.50 (MBG-2 dev set) 1.0xRT Big model from LINTO project AGPL
Arabic Tunisian        
vosk-model-small-ar-tn-0.1-linto 158M 16.06 (TARIC set) Small Arabic Tunisian model from Linagora Apache 2.0
vosk-model-ar-tn-0.1-linto 517M 16.06 (TARIC set) Arabic Tunisian model from Linagora Apache 2.0
Farsi        
vosk-model-small-fa-0.4 47M TBD Lightweight wideband model for Android and RPi for Farsi (Persian) Apache 2.0
vosk-model-fa-0.5 1G TBD Model with large vocabulary, not yet accurate but better than before (Persian) Apache 2.0
vosk-model-small-fa-0.5 60M TBD Bigger small model for desktop application (Persian) Apache 2.0
Filipino        
vosk-model-tl-ph-generic-0.6 320M 18.87 (FLEURS-dev) 18.61 (FLEURS-test) 97.9 (BABEL-dev) MATERIAL-dev (41.31) Medium wideband model for Filipino (Tagalog) by feddybear CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0
Ukrainian        
vosk-model-small-uk-v3-nano 73M TBD Nano model from Speech Recognition for Ukrainian Apache 2.0
vosk-model-small-uk-v3-small 133M TBD Small model from Speech Recognition for Ukrainian Apache 2.0
vosk-model-uk-v3 343M TBD Bigger model from Speech Recognition for Ukrainian Apache 2.0
vosk-model-uk-v3-lgraph 325M TBD Big dynamic model from Speech Recognition for Ukrainian Apache 2.0
Kazakh        
vosk-model-small-kz-0.15 42M 9.60(dev) 8.32(test) Small mobile model from SAIDA_Kazakh Apache 2.0
vosk-model-kz-0.15 378M 8.06(dev) 6.81(test) Bigger wideband model SAIDA_Kazakh Apache 2.0
Swedish        
vosk-model-small-sv-rhasspy-0.15 289M TBD Repackaged model from Rhasspy project MIT
Japanese        
vosk-model-small-ja-0.22 48M 9.52(csj CER) 17.07(ted10k CER) Lightweight wideband model for Japanese Apache 2.0
vosk-model-ja-0.22 1Gb 8.40(csj CER) 13.91(ted10k CER) Big model for Japanese Apache 2.0
Esperanto        
vosk-model-small-eo-0.42 42M 7.24 (CV Test) Lightweight model for Esperanto Apache 2.0
Hindi        
vosk-model-small-hi-0.22 42M 20.89 (IITM Challenge) 24.72 (MUCS Challenge) Lightweight model for Hindi Apache 2.0
vosk-model-hi-0.22 1.5Gb 14.85 (CV Test) 14.83 (IITM Challenge) 13.11 (MUCS Challenge) Big accurate model for servers Apache 2.0
Czech        
vosk-model-small-cs-0.4-rhasspy 44M 21.29 (CV Test) Lightweight model for Czech from Rhasspy project MIT
Polish        
vosk-model-small-pl-0.22 50M 18.36 (CV Test) 16.88 (MLS Test) 11.55 (Voxpopuli Test) Lightweight model for Polish Apache 2.0
Uzbek        
vosk-model-small-uz-0.22 49M 13.54 (CV Test) 12.92 (IS2AI USC test) Lightweight model for Uzbek Apache 2.0
Korean        
vosk-model-small-ko-0.22 82M 28.1 (Zeroth Test) Lightweight model for Korean Apache 2.0
Breton        
vosk-model-br-0.8 70M 36.4 (MCV11 Test) Breton model from vosk-br project MIT license
Gujarati        
vosk-model-gu-0.42 700M 16.45 (MS Test) Big Gujarati model Apache 2.0
vosk-model-small-gu-0.42 100M 20.49 (MS Test) Lightweight model for Gujarati Apache 2.0
Tajik        
vosk-model-tg-0.22 327M 41.1 (Fleurs test) Big Tajik model Apache 2.0
vosk-model-small-tg-0.22 50M 38.4 (Fleurs test) Lightweight model for Tajik Apache 2.0
Speaker identification model        
vosk-model-spk-0.4 13M TBD Model for speaker identification, should work for all languages Apache 2.0

Punctuation models

For punctuation and case restoration we recommend the models trained with https://github.com/benob/recasepunc

Model Size License
English    
vosk-recasepunc-en-0.22 1.6G Apache 2.0
Russian    
vosk-recasepunc-ru-0.22 1.6G Apache 2.0
German    
vosk-recasepunc-de-0.21 1.1G Apache 2.0

Other models

Other places where you can check for models which might be compatible:

Training your own model

You can train your model with Kaldi toolkit. The training is pretty standard - you need tdnn nnet3 model with i-vectors. You can check Vosk recipe for details:

https://github.com/alphacep/vosk-api/tree/master/training

  • For smaller mobile models watch the number of parameters
  • Train the model without pitch. It might be helpful for small amount of data, but for large database it doesn’t give the advantage but complicates the processing and increases response time.
  • Train ivector of dim 40 instead of standard 100 to save memory of mobile models.
  • Many Kaldi recipes are overcomplicated and do many unnecessary steps
  • PLEASE NOTE THAT THE SIMPLE GMM MODEL YOU TRAIN WITH “KALDI FOR DUMMIES” TUTORIAL DOES NOT WORK WITH VOSK. YOU NEED TO RUN VOSK RECIPE FROM START TO END, INCLUDING CHAIN MODEL TRAINING. You also need CUDA GPU to train. If you do not have a GPU, try to run Kaldi on Google Colab.

Model structure

Once you trained the model arrange the files according to the following layout (see en-us-aspire for details):

  • am/final.mdl - acoustic model
  • am/global_cmvn.stats - required for online-cmvn models, if present enables online cmvn on features.
  • conf/mfcc.conf - mfcc config file. Make sure you take mfcc_hires.conf version if you are using hires model (most external ones)
  • conf/model.conf - provide default decoding beams and silence phones. you have to create this file yourself, it is not present in kaldi model
  • conf/pitch.conf - optional file to create feature pipeline with pitch features. Might be missing if model doesn’t use pitch
  • ivector/final.dubm - take ivector files from ivector extractor (optional folder if the model is trained with ivectors)
  • ivector/final.ie
  • ivector/final.mat
  • ivector/splice.conf
  • ivector/global_cmvn.stats
  • ivector/online_cmvn.conf
  • graph/phones/word_boundary.int - from the graph
  • graph/HCLG.fst - this is the decoding graph, if you are not using lookahead
  • graph/HCLr.fst - use Gr.fst and HCLr.fst instead of one big HCLG.fst if you want to run rescoring
  • graph/Gr.fst
  • graph/phones.txt - from the graph
  • graph/words.txt - from the graph
  • rescore/G.carpa - carpa rescoring is optional but helpful in big models. Usually located inside data/lang_test_rescore
  • rescore/G.fst - also optional if you want to use rescoring, also used for interpolation with RNNLM
  • rnnlm/feat_embedding.final.mat - RNNLM embedding for rescoring. Optional if you have it.
  • rnnlm/special_symbol_opts.conf - RNNLM model options
  • rnnlm/final.raw - RNNLM model
  • rnnlm/word_feats.txt - RNNLM model word feats