There are many [0], you can search and filter by streaming and open weight only as well.
replyLooks like Voxtral and Nvidia's Nemotron are best.
[0] https://artificialanalysis.ai/speech-to-text/non-streaming
There's tons, Parakeet was the last I remember seeing which seemed to gain traction (independent lightweight implementations etc).
replyI have tried everything (that will run on a 12GB RTX 4070) and I have yet to find anything with better accuracy than Whisper V2 Large for my dataset (discord audio from TTRPG sessions, isolated per-speaker, mostly non-American accents)
replyVoxtral to me what better
replySame, for my English-only podcast
replyNot v3?
replyNvidia's Nemotron subsumes their older Parakeet model now even for real time streaming.
replyParakeet is way faster (on Nvidia hardware) but not quite as accurate in my experience.
replyIt's also super fast on CPU.
replyParakeet isn't as good as whisper large.
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