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Posted by petewarden 10 hours ago

Show HN: Moonshine Open-Weights STT models – higher accuracy than WhisperLargev3(github.com)
I wanted to share our new speech to text model, and the library to use them effectively. We're a small startup (six people, sub-$100k monthly GPU budget) so I'm proud of the work the team has done to create streaming STT models with lower word-error rates than OpenAI's largest Whisper model. Admittedly Large v3 is a couple of years old, but we're near the top the HF OpenASR leaderboard, even up against Nvidia's Parakeet family. Anyway, I'd love to get feedback on the models and software, and hear about what people might build with it.
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raybb 4 hours ago|
fyi the typepad link in your bio is broken
alexnewman 7 hours ago||
If only it did Doric
lostmsu 9 hours ago||
How does it compare to Microsoft VibeVoice ASR https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46732776 ?
cyanydeez 9 hours ago||
No LICENSE no go
bangaladore 9 hours ago||
There is a license blurb in the readme.

> This code, apart from the source in core/third-party, is licensed under the MIT License, see LICENSE in this repository.

> The English-language models are also released under the MIT License. Models for other languages are released under the Moonshine Community License, which is a non-commercial license.

> The code in core/third-party is licensed according to the terms of the open source projects it originates from, with details in a LICENSE file in each subfolder.

mkl 6 hours ago||
The LICENSE file that refers to is missing. There's one in the python folder, but not for the rest of the code.
namibj 54 minutes ago||
IANAL.

Presuming (I haven't checked myself) the git author information supports this, it should be fine to treat this as licensing the code it specifies under MIT; based on that license name being (to my understanding) unambiguous and license application being based on contract law and contract law basically having at it's very core the principle of "meeting of the minds" along with wilful infringement being really really hard to even argue for if the only thing that's separating it from being 100% clearly licensed in all proper ways being not copying in an MIT `LICENSE` template with date and author name pasted into it.

altruios 9 hours ago||
reading through readme.md "License This code, apart from the source in core/third-party, is licensed under the MIT License, see LICENSE in this repository.

The English-language models are also released under the MIT License. Models for other languages are released under the Moonshine Community License, which is a non-commercial license.

The code in core/third-party is licensed according to the terms of the open source projects it originates from, with details in a LICENSE file in each subfolder."

aplomb1026 7 hours ago|
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rob 7 hours ago|
Another fake bot account. This is getting ridiculous. It's every other thread here now.

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Two detailed large comments in two different threads in a 35 second span from a new account.