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Cactus Compute open sourced a 16.9 MB speech-to-text model that beats Whisper base on several benchmarks

Found this on their blog, released Oct 2. Whistle is a speech recognition model meant for mobile, wearables, robots, smart home stuff, and even microcontrollers. The whole model is one file, 16.9 MB, runs entirely on CPU, has zero dependencies, and audio never leaves the device. For comparison, the…

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  1. 2026-10-14 09:49 · r/learnmachinelearning
    Cactus Compute open sourced a 16.9 MB speech-to-text model that beats Whisper base on several benchmarks

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