Whisper-Tiny-En: Optimized for Mobile Deployment
Automatic speech recognition (ASR) model for English transcription as well as translation
OpenAI’s Whisper ASR (Automatic Speech Recognition) model is a state-of-the-art system designed for transcribing spoken language into written text. It exhibits robust performance in realistic, noisy environments, making it highly reliable for real-world applications. Specifically, it excels in long-form transcription, capable of accurately transcribing audio clips up to 30 seconds long. Time to the first token is the encoder's latency, while time to each additional token is decoder's latency, where we assume a mean decoded length specified below.
This model is an implementation of Whisper-Tiny-En found here.
This repository provides scripts to run Whisper-Tiny-En on Qualcomm® devices. More details on model performance across various devices, can be found here.
Model Details
- Model Type: Model_use_case.speech_recognition
- Model Stats:
- Model checkpoint: tiny.en
- Input resolution: 80x3000 (30 seconds audio)
- Mean decoded sequence length: 112 tokens
- Number of parameters (WhisperEncoder): 9.39M
- Model size (WhisperEncoder): 35.9 MB
- Number of parameters (WhisperDecoder): 28.2M
- Model size (WhisperDecoder): 108 MB
Model | Precision | Device | Chipset | Target Runtime | Inference Time (ms) | Peak Memory Range (MB) | Primary Compute Unit | Target Model |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
WhisperEncoderInf | float | QCS8275 (Proxy) | Qualcomm® QCS8275 (Proxy) | TFLITE | 419.271 ms | 20 - 42 MB | GPU | Whisper-Tiny-En.tflite |
WhisperEncoderInf | float | QCS8275 (Proxy) | Qualcomm® QCS8275 (Proxy) | QNN | 142.28 ms | 0 - 10 MB | NPU | Use Export Script |
WhisperEncoderInf | float | QCS8450 (Proxy) | Qualcomm® QCS8450 (Proxy) | TFLITE | 134.033 ms | 21 - 64 MB | GPU | Whisper-Tiny-En.tflite |
WhisperEncoderInf | float | QCS8450 (Proxy) | Qualcomm® QCS8450 (Proxy) | QNN | 114.257 ms | 0 - 236 MB | NPU | Use Export Script |
WhisperEncoderInf | float | QCS8550 (Proxy) | Qualcomm® QCS8550 (Proxy) | TFLITE | 130.771 ms | 20 - 69 MB | GPU | Whisper-Tiny-En.tflite |
WhisperEncoderInf | float | QCS8550 (Proxy) | Qualcomm® QCS8550 (Proxy) | QNN | 68.697 ms | 1 - 3 MB | NPU | Use Export Script |
WhisperEncoderInf | float | QCS9075 (Proxy) | Qualcomm® QCS9075 (Proxy) | TFLITE | 168.846 ms | 20 - 45 MB | GPU | Whisper-Tiny-En.tflite |
WhisperEncoderInf | float | QCS9075 (Proxy) | Qualcomm® QCS9075 (Proxy) | QNN | 72.128 ms | 1 - 15 MB | NPU | Use Export Script |
WhisperEncoderInf | float | SA7255P ADP | Qualcomm® SA7255P | TFLITE | 419.271 ms | 20 - 42 MB | GPU | Whisper-Tiny-En.tflite |
WhisperEncoderInf | float | SA7255P ADP | Qualcomm® SA7255P | QNN | 142.28 ms | 0 - 10 MB | NPU | Use Export Script |
WhisperEncoderInf | float | SA8255 (Proxy) | Qualcomm® SA8255P (Proxy) | TFLITE | 101.236 ms | 3 - 37 MB | GPU | Whisper-Tiny-En.tflite |
WhisperEncoderInf | float | SA8255 (Proxy) | Qualcomm® SA8255P (Proxy) | QNN | 69.056 ms | 1 - 10 MB | NPU | Use Export Script |
WhisperEncoderInf | float | SA8295P ADP | Qualcomm® SA8295P | TFLITE | 113.839 ms | 20 - 49 MB | GPU | Whisper-Tiny-En.tflite |
WhisperEncoderInf | float | SA8295P ADP | Qualcomm® SA8295P | QNN | 93.516 ms | 1 - 19 MB | NPU | Use Export Script |
WhisperEncoderInf | float | SA8650 (Proxy) | Qualcomm® SA8650P (Proxy) | TFLITE | 98.63 ms | 20 - 69 MB | GPU | Whisper-Tiny-En.tflite |
WhisperEncoderInf | float | SA8650 (Proxy) | Qualcomm® SA8650P (Proxy) | QNN | 72.489 ms | 1 - 3 MB | NPU | Use Export Script |
WhisperEncoderInf | float | SA8775P ADP | Qualcomm® SA8775P | TFLITE | 168.846 ms | 20 - 45 MB | GPU | Whisper-Tiny-En.tflite |
WhisperEncoderInf | float | SA8775P ADP | Qualcomm® SA8775P | QNN | 72.128 ms | 1 - 15 MB | NPU | Use Export Script |
WhisperEncoderInf | float | Samsung Galaxy S23 | Snapdragon® 8 Gen 2 Mobile | TFLITE | 114.249 ms | 20 - 68 MB | GPU | Whisper-Tiny-En.tflite |
WhisperEncoderInf | float | Samsung Galaxy S23 | Snapdragon® 8 Gen 2 Mobile | QNN | 69.251 ms | 0 - 83 MB | NPU | Use Export Script |
WhisperEncoderInf | float | Samsung Galaxy S23 | Snapdragon® 8 Gen 2 Mobile | ONNX | 65.119 ms | 26 - 168 MB | NPU | Whisper-Tiny-En.onnx |
WhisperEncoderInf | float | Samsung Galaxy S24 | Snapdragon® 8 Gen 3 Mobile | TFLITE | 78.166 ms | 20 - 54 MB | GPU | Whisper-Tiny-En.tflite |
WhisperEncoderInf | float | Samsung Galaxy S24 | Snapdragon® 8 Gen 3 Mobile | QNN | 57.663 ms | 1 - 239 MB | NPU | Use Export Script |
WhisperEncoderInf | float | Samsung Galaxy S24 | Snapdragon® 8 Gen 3 Mobile | ONNX | 52.51 ms | 37 - 366 MB | NPU | Whisper-Tiny-En.onnx |
WhisperEncoderInf | float | Snapdragon 8 Elite QRD | Snapdragon® 8 Elite Mobile | TFLITE | 76.181 ms | 19 - 49 MB | GPU | Whisper-Tiny-En.tflite |
WhisperEncoderInf | float | Snapdragon 8 Elite QRD | Snapdragon® 8 Elite Mobile | QNN | 45.212 ms | 0 - 228 MB | NPU | Use Export Script |
WhisperEncoderInf | float | Snapdragon 8 Elite QRD | Snapdragon® 8 Elite Mobile | ONNX | 41.854 ms | 41 - 349 MB | NPU | Whisper-Tiny-En.onnx |
WhisperEncoderInf | float | Snapdragon X Elite CRD | Snapdragon® X Elite | QNN | 66.685 ms | 0 - 0 MB | NPU | Use Export Script |
WhisperEncoderInf | float | Snapdragon X Elite CRD | Snapdragon® X Elite | ONNX | 66.088 ms | 67 - 67 MB | NPU | Whisper-Tiny-En.onnx |
WhisperDecoderInf | float | QCS8275 (Proxy) | Qualcomm® QCS8275 (Proxy) | TFLITE | 6.898 ms | 3 - 70 MB | NPU | Whisper-Tiny-En.tflite |
WhisperDecoderInf | float | QCS8275 (Proxy) | Qualcomm® QCS8275 (Proxy) | QNN | 4.013 ms | 9 - 19 MB | NPU | Use Export Script |
WhisperDecoderInf | float | QCS8450 (Proxy) | Qualcomm® QCS8450 (Proxy) | TFLITE | 4.863 ms | 3 - 76 MB | NPU | Whisper-Tiny-En.tflite |
WhisperDecoderInf | float | QCS8450 (Proxy) | Qualcomm® QCS8450 (Proxy) | QNN | 3.066 ms | 4 - 53 MB | NPU | Use Export Script |
WhisperDecoderInf | float | QCS8550 (Proxy) | Qualcomm® QCS8550 (Proxy) | TFLITE | 3.846 ms | 3 - 27 MB | NPU | Whisper-Tiny-En.tflite |
WhisperDecoderInf | float | QCS8550 (Proxy) | Qualcomm® QCS8550 (Proxy) | QNN | 2.214 ms | 10 - 14 MB | NPU | Use Export Script |
WhisperDecoderInf | float | QCS9075 (Proxy) | Qualcomm® QCS9075 (Proxy) | TFLITE | 4.723 ms | 3 - 70 MB | NPU | Whisper-Tiny-En.tflite |
WhisperDecoderInf | float | QCS9075 (Proxy) | Qualcomm® QCS9075 (Proxy) | QNN | 2.867 ms | 9 - 20 MB | NPU | Use Export Script |
WhisperDecoderInf | float | SA7255P ADP | Qualcomm® SA7255P | TFLITE | 6.898 ms | 3 - 70 MB | NPU | Whisper-Tiny-En.tflite |
WhisperDecoderInf | float | SA7255P ADP | Qualcomm® SA7255P | QNN | 4.013 ms | 9 - 19 MB | NPU | Use Export Script |
WhisperDecoderInf | float | SA8255 (Proxy) | Qualcomm® SA8255P (Proxy) | TFLITE | 3.782 ms | 3 - 38 MB | NPU | Whisper-Tiny-En.tflite |
WhisperDecoderInf | float | SA8255 (Proxy) | Qualcomm® SA8255P (Proxy) | QNN | 2.313 ms | 10 - 13 MB | NPU | Use Export Script |
WhisperDecoderInf | float | SA8295P ADP | Qualcomm® SA8295P | TFLITE | 4.94 ms | 3 - 65 MB | NPU | Whisper-Tiny-En.tflite |
WhisperDecoderInf | float | SA8295P ADP | Qualcomm® SA8295P | QNN | 3.062 ms | 1 - 18 MB | NPU | Use Export Script |
WhisperDecoderInf | float | SA8650 (Proxy) | Qualcomm® SA8650P (Proxy) | TFLITE | 3.813 ms | 3 - 29 MB | NPU | Whisper-Tiny-En.tflite |
WhisperDecoderInf | float | SA8650 (Proxy) | Qualcomm® SA8650P (Proxy) | QNN | 2.138 ms | 10 - 13 MB | NPU | Use Export Script |
WhisperDecoderInf | float | SA8775P ADP | Qualcomm® SA8775P | TFLITE | 4.723 ms | 3 - 70 MB | NPU | Whisper-Tiny-En.tflite |
WhisperDecoderInf | float | SA8775P ADP | Qualcomm® SA8775P | QNN | 2.867 ms | 9 - 20 MB | NPU | Use Export Script |
WhisperDecoderInf | float | Samsung Galaxy S23 | Snapdragon® 8 Gen 2 Mobile | TFLITE | 3.782 ms | 3 - 28 MB | NPU | Whisper-Tiny-En.tflite |
WhisperDecoderInf | float | Samsung Galaxy S23 | Snapdragon® 8 Gen 2 Mobile | QNN | 2.149 ms | 4 - 24 MB | NPU | Use Export Script |
WhisperDecoderInf | float | Samsung Galaxy S23 | Snapdragon® 8 Gen 2 Mobile | ONNX | 4.083 ms | 6 - 241 MB | NPU | Whisper-Tiny-En.onnx |
WhisperDecoderInf | float | Samsung Galaxy S24 | Snapdragon® 8 Gen 3 Mobile | TFLITE | 2.942 ms | 3 - 79 MB | NPU | Whisper-Tiny-En.tflite |
WhisperDecoderInf | float | Samsung Galaxy S24 | Snapdragon® 8 Gen 3 Mobile | QNN | 1.658 ms | 4 - 57 MB | NPU | Use Export Script |
WhisperDecoderInf | float | Samsung Galaxy S24 | Snapdragon® 8 Gen 3 Mobile | ONNX | 3.029 ms | 26 - 102 MB | NPU | Whisper-Tiny-En.onnx |
WhisperDecoderInf | float | Snapdragon 8 Elite QRD | Snapdragon® 8 Elite Mobile | TFLITE | 2.542 ms | 1 - 72 MB | NPU | Whisper-Tiny-En.tflite |
WhisperDecoderInf | float | Snapdragon 8 Elite QRD | Snapdragon® 8 Elite Mobile | QNN | 1.329 ms | 4 - 53 MB | NPU | Use Export Script |
WhisperDecoderInf | float | Snapdragon 8 Elite QRD | Snapdragon® 8 Elite Mobile | ONNX | 2.991 ms | 0 - 69 MB | NPU | Whisper-Tiny-En.onnx |
WhisperDecoderInf | float | Snapdragon X Elite CRD | Snapdragon® X Elite | QNN | 2.087 ms | 10 - 10 MB | NPU | Use Export Script |
WhisperDecoderInf | float | Snapdragon X Elite CRD | Snapdragon® X Elite | ONNX | 3.642 ms | 74 - 74 MB | NPU | Whisper-Tiny-En.onnx |
Installation
Install the package via pip:
pip install "qai-hub-models[whisper-tiny-en]"
Configure Qualcomm® AI Hub to run this model on a cloud-hosted device
Sign-in to Qualcomm® AI Hub with your
Qualcomm® ID. Once signed in navigate to Account -> Settings -> API Token
.
With this API token, you can configure your client to run models on the cloud hosted devices.
qai-hub configure --api_token API_TOKEN
Navigate to docs for more information.
Demo off target
The package contains a simple end-to-end demo that downloads pre-trained weights and runs this model on a sample input.
python -m qai_hub_models.models.whisper_tiny_en.demo
The above demo runs a reference implementation of pre-processing, model inference, and post processing.
NOTE: If you want running in a Jupyter Notebook or Google Colab like environment, please add the following to your cell (instead of the above).
%run -m qai_hub_models.models.whisper_tiny_en.demo
Run model on a cloud-hosted device
In addition to the demo, you can also run the model on a cloud-hosted Qualcomm® device. This script does the following:
- Performance check on-device on a cloud-hosted device
- Downloads compiled assets that can be deployed on-device for Android.
- Accuracy check between PyTorch and on-device outputs.
python -m qai_hub_models.models.whisper_tiny_en.export
Profiling Results
------------------------------------------------------------
WhisperEncoderInf
Device : cs_8275 (ANDROID 14)
Runtime : TFLITE
Estimated inference time (ms) : 419.3
Estimated peak memory usage (MB): [20, 42]
Total # Ops : 271
Compute Unit(s) : npu (0 ops) gpu (260 ops) cpu (11 ops)
------------------------------------------------------------
WhisperDecoderInf
Device : cs_8275 (ANDROID 14)
Runtime : TFLITE
Estimated inference time (ms) : 6.9
Estimated peak memory usage (MB): [3, 70]
Total # Ops : 557
Compute Unit(s) : npu (557 ops) gpu (0 ops) cpu (0 ops)
How does this work?
This export script leverages Qualcomm® AI Hub to optimize, validate, and deploy this model on-device. Lets go through each step below in detail:
Step 1: Compile model for on-device deployment
To compile a PyTorch model for on-device deployment, we first trace the model
in memory using the jit.trace
and then call the submit_compile_job
API.
import torch
import qai_hub as hub
from qai_hub_models.models.whisper_tiny_en import Model
# Load the model
torch_model = Model.from_pretrained()
# Device
device = hub.Device("Samsung Galaxy S24")
# Trace model
input_shape = torch_model.get_input_spec()
sample_inputs = torch_model.sample_inputs()
pt_model = torch.jit.trace(torch_model, [torch.tensor(data[0]) for _, data in sample_inputs.items()])
# Compile model on a specific device
compile_job = hub.submit_compile_job(
model=pt_model,
device=device,
input_specs=torch_model.get_input_spec(),
)
# Get target model to run on-device
target_model = compile_job.get_target_model()
Step 2: Performance profiling on cloud-hosted device
After compiling models from step 1. Models can be profiled model on-device using the
target_model
. Note that this scripts runs the model on a device automatically
provisioned in the cloud. Once the job is submitted, you can navigate to a
provided job URL to view a variety of on-device performance metrics.
profile_job = hub.submit_profile_job(
model=target_model,
device=device,
)
Step 3: Verify on-device accuracy
To verify the accuracy of the model on-device, you can run on-device inference on sample input data on the same cloud hosted device.
input_data = torch_model.sample_inputs()
inference_job = hub.submit_inference_job(
model=target_model,
device=device,
inputs=input_data,
)
on_device_output = inference_job.download_output_data()
With the output of the model, you can compute like PSNR, relative errors or spot check the output with expected output.
Note: This on-device profiling and inference requires access to Qualcomm® AI Hub. Sign up for access.
Deploying compiled model to Android
The models can be deployed using multiple runtimes:
TensorFlow Lite (
.tflite
export): This tutorial provides a guide to deploy the .tflite model in an Android application.QNN (
.so
export ): This sample app provides instructions on how to use the.so
shared library in an Android application.
View on Qualcomm® AI Hub
Get more details on Whisper-Tiny-En's performance across various devices here. Explore all available models on Qualcomm® AI Hub
License
- The license for the original implementation of Whisper-Tiny-En can be found here.
- The license for the compiled assets for on-device deployment can be found here
References
Community
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