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Whistle: speech to text in a 16.9MB file

Hey all, we designed Cactus Whistle, an ASR model for ultra-small devices. It's not perfect, but mostly beats Whisper base with 9x less file size and 6x speed. Whistle supports English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch and Polish. Remember, the goal at Cactus Compute isn't to achieve SOTA wi…

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  1. 2026-10-05 17:27 · r/LocalLLaMA
    Whistle: speech to text in a 16.9MB file

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