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Charcot AI releases Marimba, a fast open-weight speech model

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A new open-weight model named Marimba has been released for speech processing. Developed by Charcot AI, Marimba is designed to be fast and lightweight, capable of providing typed decisions such as yes/no, choices, or scores based on speech input. It utilizes a frozen Qwen3-ASR-0.6B model for its core functionality, with additional components for voice activity detection, turn endings, and speaker identification. The model is available under an Apache-2.0 license, with code and a demo accessible on Hugging Face. AI

IMPACT Provides a lightweight and fast option for speech processing tasks, potentially enabling new applications or improving existing ones.

RANK_REASON The cluster describes the release of a new open-weight model for speech processing, including its technical details and availability. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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Charcot AI releases Marimba, a fast open-weight speech model

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  1. r/MachineLearning TIER_1 English(EN) · /u/solanotodesch ·

    Marimba: a System One model for speech [R]

    <!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Marimba is like Jev, but for audio.</p> <p>I built it to be fast and lightweight, and to return typed decisions about speech: yes/no, a choice, or a score.</p> <p>It runs on a frozen Qwen3-ASR-0.6B. Word and language questions use zero-shot score…

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