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Best local speech-to-text models for Turkish

9 of the 26 reviewed local speech-to-text models explicitly list Turkish. For long recordings on a mid-range NVIDIA GPU the matcher's first pick is Whisper turbo; for live transcription it is Nemotron 3.5 ASR Streaming 0.6B; for meetings with speaker labels it is VibeVoice-ASR 7B. 1 model offers native streaming, 1 native speaker diarization and 8 have a permissive license.

Top matches by setup

Computed with the same deterministic matcher as the homepage, restricted to models whose official source lists Turkish. To keep the shortlist useful, each row shows the best-ranked model from three different families (for example, only one Whisper size). Scores are decision guidance, not accuracy claims.

Best-ranked model from each of the top three model families, Turkish
Setup	#1	#2	#3
Long recordings, 8–12 GB NVIDIA GPU, balanced	Whisper turbo 79/100 · Strong fit	Nemotron 3.5 ASR Streaming 0.6B 75/100 · Strong fit	Qwen3-ASR 0.6B 75/100 · Strong fit
Live transcription (native streaming, speed first)	Nemotron 3.5 ASR Streaming 0.6B 91/100 · Excellent fit	Qwen3-ASR 0.6B 77/100 · Strong fit	Whisper turbo 76/100 · Strong fit
Meetings with speaker labels (diarization + timestamps)	VibeVoice-ASR 7B 86/100 · Excellent fit	Whisper medium 84/100 · Strong fit	Qwen3-ASR 0.6B 77/100 · Strong fit
Subtitles with timing, accuracy first	Whisper medium 87/100 · Excellent fit	Qwen3-ASR 0.6B 80/100 · Strong fit	VibeVoice-ASR 7B 79/100 · Strong fit
CPU-only machine, low memory use	Whisper tiny 74/100 · Strong fit	Nemotron 3.5 ASR Streaming 0.6B 58/100 · Possible fit	Qwen3-ASR 0.6B 58/100 · Possible fit

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Choose by requirement

Live captions and voice input: Native streaming: Nemotron 3.5 ASR Streaming 0.6B. Everything else needs a chunking runtime, which adds latency.
Speaker-labelled meetings: Native diarization: VibeVoice-ASR 7B. Other models need a separate diarization pipeline.
Commercial products: Permissive licenses: Whisper (tiny, base, small, medium, turbo), Qwen3-ASR 0.6B, Qwen3-ASR 1.7B and VibeVoice-ASR 7B. 1 other model carries attribution, ShareAlike or custom terms.
CPU-only or low-power machines: Rated 4/5 or better for CPU-only use: Whisper tiny, Whisper base and Whisper small.

All 9 models that list Turkish

Reviewed local ASR models listing Turkish
Model	Streaming	Timestamps	Diarization	License	CPU · NVIDIA fit
Nemotron 3.5 ASR Streaming 0.6B NVIDIA · 600M	Native	Limited	No	OpenMDW-1.1 Custom terms	2/5 · 5/5
Qwen3-ASR 0.6B Qwen · 0.6B	Via runtime	Separate aligner	No	Apache-2.0 Permissive	2/5 · 5/5
Qwen3-ASR 1.7B Qwen · 1.7B	Via runtime	Separate aligner	No	Apache-2.0 Permissive	1/5 · 5/5
VibeVoice-ASR 7B Microsoft · 9B total	No	Yes	Yes	MIT Permissive	1/5 · 4/5
Whisper base OpenAI · 74M	Via runtime	Yes	No	MIT Permissive	5/5 · 4/5
Whisper medium OpenAI · 769M	Via runtime	Yes	No	MIT Permissive	2/5 · 5/5
Whisper small OpenAI · 244M	Via runtime	Yes	No	MIT Permissive	4/5 · 5/5
Whisper tiny OpenAI · 39M	Via runtime	Yes	No	MIT Permissive	5/5 · 4/5
Whisper turbo OpenAI · 809M	Via runtime	Yes	No	MIT Permissive	2/5 · 5/5

Multilingual models that do not list Turkish

Parakeet TDT 0.6B v3, Orukeet, Omnilingual ASR CTC 300M, Cohere Transcribe 03-2026, VibeVoice-ASR Streaming 1.5B, VibeVoice-ASR-BitNet, Fun-ASR-MLT-Nano-2512, Voxtral Mini 4B Realtime 2602, Granite Speech 5.0 2B, Granite Speech 5.0 470M TurboCTC, VibeVoice-ASR-Streaming-7B, Parakeet Redux, Whistle and Jais-ASR are multilingual but do not list Turkish in the reviewed official source, so the matcher does not recommend them for this language. Omnilingual ASR documents 1,600+ language-script codes, so check Meta's full list ↗ before ruling it out.

Common questions

What is the best local speech-to-text model for Turkish?

There is no single winner; it depends on the workload. In the matcher, Whisper turbo leads for long recordings on a mid-range GPU, VibeVoice-ASR 7B for meetings with speaker labels and Whisper tiny for CPU-only machines. Benchmark the top two or three on your own Turkish audio before deciding.

Is there an offline Turkish model with real-time streaming?

Yes. Nemotron 3.5 ASR Streaming 0.6B lists Turkish and has a native streaming architecture. Measure end-to-end latency on your hardware.

Does Whisper support Turkish?

Yes. All Whisper sizes list Turkish in the official tokenizer language list. Smaller sizes trade accuracy for speed; Whisper turbo is the usual starting point on a GPU.

Which models do not support Turkish?

Among multilingual models, Parakeet TDT 0.6B v3, Orukeet, Omnilingual ASR CTC 300M, Cohere Transcribe 03-2026, VibeVoice-ASR Streaming 1.5B, VibeVoice-ASR-BitNet, Fun-ASR-MLT-Nano-2512, Voxtral Mini 4B Realtime 2602, Granite Speech 5.0 2B, Granite Speech 5.0 470M TurboCTC, VibeVoice-ASR-Streaming-7B, Parakeet Redux, Whistle and Jais-ASR do not list Turkish in their reviewed sources. English-only models are also excluded.

Generated from the reviewed model database (latest review November 3, 2026). "Lists Turkish" means the model's official source explicitly names the language; it does not guarantee equal accuracy across languages.