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Whistle: Compact Speech Recognition Model Released for On-Device Use

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Cactus Compute has released Whistle, a compact speech recognition model designed for on-device applications like mobile phones and robots. This 16.9 MB model runs on a CPU without external dependencies and can perform transcription, provide word-level timestamps, and generate speech embeddings. Whistle demonstrates superior performance on several benchmarks, including LibriSpeech and SPGISpeech, while offering faster time-to-first-token compared to larger models like OpenAI's Whisper. AI

IMPACT Enables efficient on-device speech processing for a wider range of hardware, potentially reducing reliance on cloud-based services.

RANK_REASON Release of a specialized, compact speech-to-text model for on-device applications.

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Whistle: Compact Speech Recognition Model Released for On-Device Use

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  1. Lobsters — AI tag TIER_1 English(EN) · cactuscompute.com via rajtilakjee ·

    Whistle: Speech to Text in 16.9 MB

    <p><a href="https://lobste.rs/s/lpomuo/whistle_speech_text_16_9_mb">Comments</a></p>

  2. r/LocalLLaMA TIER_1 English(EN) · /u/namanyayg ·

    Whistle: speech to text in 16.9 MB

    &#32; submitted by &#32; <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/namanyayg"> /u/namanyayg </a> <br /> <span><a href="https://cactuscompute.com/blog/whistle">[link]</a></span> &#32; <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1x3bpfl/whistle_speech_to_text_in_169_mb/"…

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