Fermion Research's Phonon-2 Beats Whisper at 5.21% WER in Just 164 MB

Fermion Research shipped a 164 MB English speech recognition model that matches a 2.5 GB teacher's accuracy and transcribes an hour of audio in 20 seconds on a MacBook Air.

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2026-10-01 12:17 · AlphaSignal
Fermion Research's Phonon-2 Beats Whisper at 5.21% WER in Just 164 MB

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