---
tags:
- text-generation-inference
- whisper
- audio
base_model:
- openai/whisper-large-v2
---


# Whisper Large v2 with Key-Value-Cache enabled in ONNX fp16 format
- Model creator: [Open AI](https://huggingface.co/openai)
- Original model: [Whisper Large v2](https://huggingface.co/openai/whisper-large-v2)

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## Description

This repo contains the ONNX files for the ONNX conversion of Whisper Large v2 done by Esperanto Technologies.
The model is in the fp16 format and has the KVC enabled.

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## How to download ONNX model and weight files

The easiest way to obtain the model is to clone this whole repo.
Alternatively you can download the files is using the `huggingface-hub` Python library.

```shell
pip3 install huggingface-hub>=0.17.1
```

Then you can download any individual model file to the current directory, at high speed, with a command like this:

```shell
huggingface-cli download Esperanto/whisper-large-v2-kvc-fp16-onnx --local-dir whisper-large-v2-kvc-fp16-onnx --local-dir-use-symlinks False
```

For more documentation on downloading with `huggingface-cli`, please see: [HF -> Hub Python Library -> Download files -> Download from the CLI](https://huggingface.co/docs/huggingface_hub/guides/download#download-from-the-cli).

## How to run from Python code using ONNXRuntime

This model can easily be ran in a CPU using [ONNXRuntime](https://onnxruntime.ai/).

Scripts about how to run these models will be provided soon.