Right now I intend to maintain this as a library. The examples are just that, examples for programmers/agents. If someone in the community wants to step up to maintaining release binaries I will gladly have that support, it's just impossible to do as a sole maintainer

More or less yes, for whisper.cpp, just trying to make local transcription more accessible to anyone building an app, etc

Every model with open weights has some code which can be used to inference it. So we download the published weights and run against inference library they suggest, be it transformers, Nemo, etc

saw the demo its impressive but the audio was robotic

yes

Parakeet unified for me no longer does this and it’s also a streaming transcription model!

But the answer largely depends on you, the languages you speak, and personal preference. Whisper is still excellent and supported in transcribe.cpp

Cohere Transcribe is also excellent, but many of the new models are as well

I run the same, if you want try a simple filter post transcription to remove them, and while you're at it add some simple word replacements like 'cloud MD' to 'CLAUDE.MD'

audio.cpp @ github repo has good collection of TTS models

> parakeet on a mac which transcribes all my uh's and aahs

You should be able to fix this by playing with the mic speech floor. It happens when to much ambient stuff slurps in.

It's actually gaslighting you, you don't say that many ums and ahs ;)

Thanks :)