Whistle: Speech to Text in 16.9 MB

Posted by gmays 6 hours ago

Whistle: Speech to Text in 16.9 MB(cactuscompute.com)

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Centigonal 4 hours ago|

This is quite good, especially given the size and the fact that it runs on the CPU.

mo2art 5 hours ago||

RuntimeError: audio limit is 30 s

jjice 5 hours ago|

Did you record over 30 seconds?

mrkn1 5 hours ago||

love seeing more sub-20MB, CPU-first models. if anyone wants a CLI built on the same ethos (no GPU, no cloud), been using yapsnap streaming Zipformer ASR, plus diarization and timestamps all on CPU! It supports 10 languages. Unlimited transcription for free.

mrkn1 5 hours ago|

https://github.com/kouhxp/yapsnap/

pzo 4 hours ago||

tested in polish and unless you speak very loud, clear and slow is not that good, parakeet definitely better.

lab14 2 hours ago||

Tried it a few times with English, Spanish and French and the quality/accuracy is pretty "meh". If the model doesn't really work, it doesn't matter if it fits in 1MB.

saturn8601 5 hours ago||

Initial tests make this feel just like iPhone's terrible text to speech. It is the one thing I utterly hate about iPhone. Ive tried apps that try to embed themselves into the iPhone keyboard and they always don't work out well. Hopefully this gets better and we can somehow get it into the iPhone more seamlessly.

MayeulC 5 hours ago|

Speech to text I assume? Maybe it has to do with your a accent or pronunciation? You could contribute a bit to Mozilla's Common voice, if that's the case. I assume it is part of every STT training corpus.

saturn8601 4 hours ago||

Yes sorry Speech to Text. I have a standard US East coast accent but sometimes I speak a little mumbly. When I made an effort to speak more slowly and with a cleared throat there was some improvement but still not writing all words.

aidotguru 5 hours ago||

eager to see if working in android phones

rpdillon 5 hours ago|

FUTO keyboard (open-source, free) runs entirely on-device and has extremely good STT accurary, especially with the 70M parameter model. I've used it for years now and love it.

https://futo.tech/

Edit: As others have pointed out, this is not actually open source. It's source-available, which is quite a bit different because folks can't fork and distribute it as easily. The license also appears to be revocable and non-transferable, which makes it different from open source licenses.

robertlane0 5 hours ago|||

I'd classify it as "source-available" given the noncommercial clause in the license.

https://github.com/futo-org/android-keyboard/blob/master/LIC...

rpdillon 4 hours ago||

Good call out. I tend to be very sensitive about these things, and this is a case where I messed up. Thanks for the correction.

lrvick 5 hours ago||||

Futo only produces source-available proprietary software. They most certainly are not Open Source, though they unfortunately lied about this a lot before they got called out enough times.

https://github.com/futo-org/voice-input/blob/master/LICENSE....

rpdillon 4 hours ago||

Good call... I got that one wrong. Thanks for the pointer!

helterskelter2 5 hours ago|||

I've used FUDO keyboard for a long time, but I never tried using the voice input, so I'm testing it now. Let's see how well it transcribes everything.

...Okay that was pretty good.

tecleandor 6 hours ago||

Spanish is not good (seems to write non existing words and/or with terrible typos...) but English seem to work good even with my (Spanish) accent...

kaoD 5 hours ago|

Spanish from where? Here (Castilian Spanish) it seemed to work fine.

tecleandor 5 hours ago|||

Madrid. But it will only work properly if I'm clearly dictating with a very regular rhythm (ViaVoice dictation, if anyone remembers...). If I use a more natural/conversational rhythm (no slang, no abbreviations...) it easily confuses words.

chilicuil 5 hours ago|||

Mexican and venezuelan aren't detected correctly

paaloeye 3 hours ago|

RIP Wispr Flow

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