Best AI News โ€” Updated Every 3 Hours
Story Page
← All Stories
Home→ Community→ Story
Community

Whistle: speech to text in a 16.9MB file

Via r/LocalLlama
Monday, Oct 5, 2026 ยท 5:27PM
Summary

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 wit

Continue reading the full article
Read at r/LocalLlama
www.reddit.com
Back to all stories