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English speech recognition model windy-edge-ggml

Open speech-to-text model published by Windstorm Labs on Hugging Face.

Task: Speech-to-text (automatic speech recognition)
Language: English
Lineage: Distil-Whisper
Formats in the repo: ggml
Converted from: WindyWord/listen-windy-edge
Hugging Face: WindyWord/windy-edge-ggml
Last updated on HF: 2026-08-01

Quality

Not benchmarked by this site yet. Speech models have no published word-error rates here; any figures in the Hugging Face card were not re-measured by us.

How to run

Shell

# build whisper.cpp from https://github.com/ggml-org/whisper.cpp, then:
pip install huggingface_hub

Shell

# Not tested by this site. Download the single model file, then run whisper.cpp:
hf download WindyWord/windy-edge-ggml ggml-windy-edge-q5_1.bin --local-dir .
./build/bin/whisper-cli -m ggml-windy-edge-q5_1.bin -f audio.wav

Untested: this snippet has not been run by us. Treat it as a starting point.

Licence and attribution

Licence: MIT
Upstream: distil-whisper/distil-large-v3
Upstream licence: MIT
Attribution: Based on distil-whisper/distil-large-v3 (Distil-Whisper) by Hugging Face. Licensed MIT.

Copy this into your NOTICE file (or equivalent) when you ship the model:

NOTICE

This product uses the model WindyWord/windy-edge-ggml
(https://huggingface.co/WindyWord/windy-edge-ggml), published by Windstorm Labs (https://windstormlabs.com).
Based on distil-whisper/distil-large-v3 (Distil-Whisper) by Hugging Face. Licensed MIT.
Converted by Windstorm Labs to ggml (q5_1) from WindyWord/listen-windy-edge.
Licensed under the MIT License: https://opensource.org/license/mit

This is a convenience, not legal advice. See Licensing.