Production TestedSpeech-to-Text

Groq Whisper Large v3 Turbo

Fast Whisper inference on Groq hardware — poor Arabic quality with inconsistent latency.

Not Recommended

Groq's fast hardware can't compensate for Whisper's poor Arabic handling. Quality is unacceptable and latency is too inconsistent for voice agents.

Groq offers hardware-accelerated Whisper Large v3 Turbo inference. While marketed as the fastest Whisper endpoint, Arabic transcription quality was horrible in production testing, with wildly inconsistent latency ranging from 284ms to 3.4 seconds.

Benchmarks

Latency

Avg EOU Delay284ms–3388ms
Best Case284ms
Worst Case3388ms

Quality

RatingPoor
Arabic Dialect Support
MSA

Described as 'horrible' transcription quality for Arabic in production testing.

Features

Hardware-accelerated inference
Whisper model compatibility
Batch and real-time modes

PricingFree Tier Available

PlanPriceUnit
Free$0per minute

Integration

SDKs
PythonNode.js
API Style

REST (OpenAI-compatible)

Documentation

Verdict

Groq's fast hardware can't compensate for Whisper's poor Arabic handling. Quality is unacceptable and latency is too inconsistent for voice agents.

Best For

Pros

  • Free tier available
  • OpenAI-compatible API
  • Fast hardware acceleration

Cons

  • Horrible Arabic transcription quality
  • Wildly inconsistent latency (0.3s–3.4s)
  • Not suitable for real-time streaming
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