# Efficient distilled model

Kotoba-Whisper is a Japanese automatic speech recognition distilled model developed by Asahi Ushio in collaboration with Kotoba Technologies, based on Whisper large-v3 distillation, achieving a 6.3x inference speed improvement.

This is a French sentence embedding model based on DistilCamemBERT, capable of encoding sentences or paragraphs into 768-dimensional vectors for tasks such as sentence similarity computation.