Model reference · open weights
qwen3-asr-q8-0 is an open-weight audio or speech model from OpenVoiceOS. AxForge deploys and operates it for you on dedicated EU-owned hardware — with the licence handled where one is required.
Available as managed deployment — configured and operated for you on dedicated EU hardware, quoted per deployment.
What it is
| Released by | OpenVoiceOS |
|---|---|
| Type | Audio & music |
| Task | Speech→text |
| Released | 2026-02-19 |
| Popularity | 653 downloads / month |
| Licence | Unknown |
About
This model is a quantized gguf-format export of Qwen/Qwen3-ASR-0.6B for ease of use in edge devices and CPU-based inference environments. The original model is transformed into gguf with F16 tensors by the script convert_hf_to_gguf.py and then further quantized, if needed, using the tool quantize from the same repo.
The requirements can be installed as
$ pip install git+https://github.com/femelo/py-qwen3-asr-cpp
from py_qwen3_asr_cpp.model import Qwen3ASRModel
# Initialize the model (it handles downloading from this repo)
model = Qwen3ASRModel(
asr_model="qwen3-asr-0.6b-q8-0",
n_threads=4
)
# Transcribe from file
result = model.transcribe("audio.mp3")
print(f"Detected Language: {result.language}")
print(f"Transcription: {result.text}")
Refer to https://github.com/femelo/py-qwen3-asr-cpp for more details.
The license is derived from the original model: Apache 2.0. For more details, please refer to Qwen/Qwen3-ASR-0.6B.
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How it works
Using it via the API
Once AxForge deploys qwen3-asr-q8-0 for you, it answers on the OpenAI-compatible API — the same base URL and keys as every other model. (qwen3-asr-q8-0 below is illustrative; you get the exact model name on deployment.)
$ curl -sS https://api.axforge.ai/v1/audio/transcriptions \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $AXFORGE_API_KEY" \ -F model="qwen3-asr-q8-0" -F file=@audio.mp3
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