---
title: Prahaladha/hima-asr
url: https://recentmodel.com/models/Prahaladha/hima-asr/
status: archived · low-signal
published: 2026-10-12T16:57:14Z
updated: 2026-10-23T11:26:00Z
source: https://huggingface.co/Prahaladha/hima-asr
---

# Prahaladha/hima-asr

Hima-ASR is a compact open speech recognition model for 11 Indian languages and English: Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Odia, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu and English. 587M params. License: apache-2.0-and-gemma. Vendor-reported: "Hima-ASR has the lowest error of the four in Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada, and beats Sarvam in Hindi (14.2 vs 16.6)." Vendor-reported: "On the 12-language average it beats Flex and is within 0.2 points of Core (12.84) and Sarvam (12.79); Sarvam is best on English."

- Vendor-reported: Hima-ASR has the lowest error of the four in Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada, and beats Sarvam in Hindi (14.2 vs 16.6).
- Vendor-reported: On the 12-language average it beats Flex and is within 0.2 points of Core (12.84) and Sarvam (12.79); Sarvam is best on English.

- **Org:** Prahaladha
- **Released:** 2026-10-12
- **Status:** archived · low-signal
- **License:** apache-2.0-and-gemma (permissive)
- **Parameters:** 587M
- **Architecture:** HimaASRForConditionalGeneration
- **Task:** automatic-speech-recognition · audio
- **Signal:** 2 HF likes · 297 downloads
- **Archived:** 2026-10-23 (no longer listed by the collector; stats as last seen)

## Runs on

mixed: real files + estimate; sizing calculation, not tested.

- Q4 ~1.9 GB (estimated): no listed device
- Q8 ~2.1 GB (estimated): no listed device
- FP16 ~2.7 GB: 8GB GPU (4060 / 3070), 12GB GPU (RTX 3060), 16GB GPU (5060 Ti / 4060 Ti / 4080 / 5080), 24GB GPU (3090 / 4090), 32GB GPU (5090), 48GB GPU (RTX 6000 Ada / A6000), 96GB GPU (RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell), 1× DGX Spark (128GB), 2× DGX Spark (256GB), 16GB GPU (7800 XT / 9070 XT), 24GB GPU (7900 XTX), Strix Halo 128GB unified (~96GB usable), Arc B60 24GB, Arc B70 32GB, Mac 16GB, Mac 24GB, Mac 36GB, Mac 48GB, Mac 64GB (M1 Max), Mac 96GB, Mac 128GB, Mac 192GB, Mac 256GB, Mac 512GB, CPU only, 32GB RAM (slow), CPU only, 64GB RAM (slow), CPU only, 128GB RAM (slow), CPU only, 256GB RAM (slow)

## Links

- [Hugging Face](https://huggingface.co/Prahaladha/hima-asr)