Cactus Compute's Whistle Squeezes 7-Language Speech Recognition Into 16.9 MB

Cactus Compute's Whistle squeezes multilingual speech-to-text into a 16.9 MB CPU file that reportedly beats Whisper base with 9x less size and 6x speed.

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2026-10-09 13:01 · AlphaSignal
Cactus Compute's Whistle Squeezes 7-Language Speech Recognition Into 16.9 MB

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