WAVLab's Open Whisper-style Speech Models: fully open speech foundation models pretrained from scratch on public data (v4, 2025, with scaled and cleaned corpora), plus OWLS — a 0.25B–18B suite establishing scaling laws for multilingual speech recognition and translation. The open reference line for speech-FM science, shipped through ESPnet.

Model Details

Parameters 18B

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