Cactus Whistle: an ASR model for ultra-small devices achieves 9x smaller file size and 6x faster speed than Whisper base, with 55M parameters and 36M active; supports English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch and Polish
Read the original at www.reddit.com→Hey all, we designed Cactus Whistle, an ASR model for ultra-small devices. It's not perfect, but mostly beats Whisper base with 9x less file size and 6x speed. Whistle supports English, German, French, Spanish,...
Original headline: "Whistle: speech to text in a 16.9MB file"
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- Oct 5, 17:27 UTC r/LocalLLaMA lead source Whistle: speech to text in a 16.9MB file