Model reference · open weights
SenseVoiceSmall is an open-weight audio or speech model from FunAudioLLM. SenseVoiceSmall (BF16) weighs 936 MB; the smallest configuration that runs it is RTX 3060 12 GB.
Summary of the FunAudioLLM/SenseVoiceSmall model card, 2026-10-01
What it is
| Released by | FunAudioLLM |
|---|---|
| Released | 2024-07-03 |
| VRAM | 936 MB for the weights |
What it runs on
| Card | One stream | Memory |
|---|---|---|
| RTX 3060 12 GB | fits | 11.6 GB |
| RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB | fits | 15.4 GB |
| RTX 3090 24 GB | fits | 23.4 GB |
| RTX 4090 24 GB | fits | 23.4 GB |
| RTX 5090 32 GB | fits | 31.0 GB |
| L40S 48 GB | fits | 44.0 GB |
| A100 80 GB | fits | 78.2 GB |
| H100 80 GB | fits | 78.1 GB |
| RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 96 GB | fits | 93.8 GB |
| DGX Spark (GB10) 128 GB unified | fits | 107 GB |
| H200 141 GB | fits | 138 GB |
| B200 180 GB | fits | 176 GB |
Builds
| Build | Params | Precision | Weights | Smallest setup |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SenseVoiceSmall (above) ↗ | — | BF16 | 936 MB | RTX 3060 12 GB |
| SenseVoiceSmall-GGUF ↗ 3 builds: Q8 254 MB … GGUF 936 MB |
— | GGUF | 470 MB | RTX 3060 12 GB |
From the model card
SenseVoice is part of the FunASR ecosystem — one industrial-grade open-source toolkit for ASR · VAD · punctuation · speaker diarization · emotion / event · LLM-ASR. A Star really helps the project (and keeps you updated):
🌟 FunASR · 🌟 SenseVoice · 🌟 Fun-ASR · 🌟 FunClip
⚡ CPU / edge — no GPU, no Python: run SenseVoiceSmall as a single self-contained binary via llama.cpp / GGUF (like whisper.cpp), with built-in VAD. Prebuilt binaries + one-command model download → SenseVoiceSmall-GGUF · runtime · guide
github repo : https://github.com/FunAudioLLM/SenseVoice
SenseVoice is a speech foundation model with multiple speech understanding capabilities, including automatic speech recognition (ASR), spoken language identification (LID), speech emotion recognition (SER), and audio event detection (AED).
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Model Zoo: modelscope, huggingface
Online Demo: modelscope demo, huggingface space
SenseVoice focuses on high-accuracy multilingual speech recognition, speech emotion recognition, and audio event detection.
We compared the performance of multilingual speech recognition between SenseVoice and Whisper on open-source benchmark datasets, including AISHELL-1, AISHELL-2, Wenetspeech, LibriSpeech, and Common Voice. In terms of Chinese and Cantonese recognition, the SenseVoice-Small model has advantages.
Due to the current lack of widely-used benchmarks and methods for speech emotion recognition, we conducted evaluations across various metrics on multiple test sets and performed a comprehensive comparison with numerous results from recent benchmarks. The selected test sets encompass data in both Chinese and English, and include multiple styles such as performances, films, and natural conversations. Without finetuning on the target data, SenseVoice was able to achieve and exceed the performance of the current best speech emotion recognition models.
Furthermore, we compared multiple open-source speech emotion recognition models on the test sets, and the results indicate that the SenseVoice-Large model achieved the best performance on nearly all datasets, while the SenseVoice-Small model also surpassed other open-source models on the majority of the datasets.
Although trained exclusively on speech data, SenseVoice can still function as a standalone event detection model. We compared its performance on the environmental sound classification ESC-50 dataset a
Quoted from the model card on Hugging Face. The full card is behind the Hugging Face link above.
How it works