Chirp
No estimate
No hardware requirements for this model
The weights for this model have not been published, so it cannot be downloaded or run on your own hardware at any size. It is reachable only through its provider, and no graphics card changes that.
On record
Full specification
Everything on record for this model. Most of it describes how it was trained rather than how it runs — useful context for judging how much work went into it, and how it compares with models built at a different scale.
Origin
Who built this model, where, and when it was published.
- Organisation
- Organisation type
- Industry
- Country
- United States of America
- Published
- 27 June 2023
- Authors
- Ivan Nardini, G. Hussain Chinoy
What it does
The problem areas the model was built for. A model can carry several of each.
- Domain
- Speech
- Task
- Speech recognition (ASR), Speech-to-text
Size
How large the model is and how much data it was trained on. Parameters are the figure that decides whether it fits on a given graphics card.
- Parameters
- 2B
- Training data
- tokens
"On Google Vertex AI, you can access Chirp, a 2B-parameter speech model which achieved incredible accuracy improvements in speech recognition over several languages" (https://medium.com/google-cloud/getting-started-with-chirp-the-googles-universal-speech-model-usm-on-vertex-ai-f54edaf4da93).
Availability
Whether you can obtain the model and run it on your own hardware, which is what decides if any of the graphics-card figures on this page apply.
- Weights
- Closed — provider access only
- Model access
- API access
- Training code
- Unreleased
How it is classified
Labels the source dataset applies when tracking notable models, and how confident it is in the entry.
- Record confidence
- Confident
Sources
Where this record came from and when it was last checked.
- Reference
- Getting started with Chirp, the Google’s Universal Speech Model (USM) on Vertex AI
- Last updated
- 28 November 2025
What the numbers mean
Background
Chirp was published by Google, in the country recorded as United States of America, during June 2023. It comes out of an organisation categorised as industry.
It works in the domain of Speech, and is recorded as performing the task of speech recognition (ASR), Speech-to-text.
Its weights were never published, so it can only be reached through its provider. No graphics card changes that.
Answers
Chirp — common questions
Chirp— how many parameters does it have?
It has a parameter count of 2B. "On Google Vertex AI, you can access Chirp, a 2B-parameter speech model which achieved incredible accuracy improvements in speech recognition over several languages" (https://medium.com/google-cloud/getting-started-with-chirp-the-googles-universal-speech-model-usm-on-vertex-ai-f54edaf4da93). That figure is the total, and it is what decides how much memory the model needs — roughly half a gigabyte per billion at the compression most people use.
Chirp— who created it?
It was published by Google, based in United States of America, an organisation categorised as industry.
Chirp— when was it released?
It was published in June 2023. Capability per parameter has improved considerably since, so a newer model of the same size is often the better use of the same hardware.
Chirp— what is it used for?
It works in the domain of Speech, and is recorded as handling the task of speech recognition (ASR), Speech-to-text. These are the areas it was designed around; they describe intent rather than a hard boundary.
Chirp— what GPU do I need to run it?
None. This is a closed model — its weights were never published, so it cannot be downloaded or run on your own hardware at any price. It is reachable only through its provider.
Chirp— is it open source?
No. Its weights have not been published, so it exists only as a service controlled by its owner.
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