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EmbeddingGemma 2 Speech-to-Text: 1 Hour of Audio in 12.6s on an 8 GB MacBook Air

An hour of audio, transcribed in 12.6 seconds on a base 8 GB MacBook Air, by a model that was never trained to transcribe anything. That claim comes from Embedding Gemma Transcribe , a side project that turns Google's EmbeddingGemma 2 into a local speech-to-text engine. It's sitting at 430 points o…

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  1. 2026-10-16 17:40 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
    EmbeddingGemma 2 Speech-to-Text: 1 Hour of Audio in 12.6s on an 8 GB MacBook Air

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