ollama run frozenlab/qwen3-asr
Speech recognition models from the Qwen team (Alibaba), packaged for Ollama with the audio encoder (mmproj). 52 languages and dialects, automatic language detection, punctuation and capitalization. Weights: ggml-org GGUF conversion of Qwen3-ASR, Q8_0. License: Apache 2.0.
| Tag | Size | Use |
|---|---|---|
1.7b / latest |
2.5 GB | best accuracy |
0.6b |
1.0 GB | fast, live transcription |
Send the audio (16 kHz mono WAV, up to ~60 s per request) base64-encoded in the
images field. Use an empty prompt:
curl http://localhost:11434/api/chat -d '{
"model": "frozenlab/qwen3-asr",
"stream": false,
"messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "",
"images": ["'"$(base64 -w0 speech.wav)"'"]}]
}'
The reply starts with the detected language, e.g.
language German<asr_text>Hallo, wie geht's? — strip everything up to and including <asr_text>.
| Model | Window | WER | Time per 30 s audio |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.7b | 30 s | 15.4 % | 1.8 s |
| 0.6b | 30 s | 19.3 % | 1.0 s |
Accuracy stays flat up to 60 s windows and degrades at ~2 min. Requires an Ollama
version with qwen3a audio projector support.