Whistle: speech to text in 16.9 MB
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Source record
Published by r/LocalLLaMA (T2 source). The original is at https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1x3bpfl/whistle_speech_to_text_in_169_mb/.
Pipeline notes
The summary and note below are generated by the signal pipeline — they are Beyond Desk’s reading, not quotations from the source.
SummaryA community post introduces Whistle, a speech-to-text model with a footprint of only 16.9 MB, likely targeting local inference on resource-constrained hardware. No further details available from the excerpt.
Why it mattersA sub-20 MB speech-to-text model is small enough to run on phones or edge devices, which is worth noting for local-first workflow setups.
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