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#183In English it is pretty good. But talk to it in Polish, and suddenly it thinks you speak Russian? Ukranian? Belarus? I would understand if an American company launched this, but for a company being so proud about their European roots, I think it should have better support for major European languages. I tried English + Polish: > All right, I'm not really sure if transcribing this makes a lot of sense. Maybe not. A ць…
They don't claim to support Polish, but they do support Russian. > The model is natively multilingual, achieving strong transcription performance in 13 languages, including English, Chinese, Hindi, Spanish, Arabic, French, Portuguese, Russian, German, Japanese, Korean, Italian, and Dutch. With a 4B parameter footprint, it runs efficiently on edge devices, ensuring privacy and security for sensitive deployments. I won…
Just a side note to remember that this is a mini model.
It's very small and yet 12 languages.
I guess a European version can be created but now it's aimed at a world wide distribution.
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#184Do we know if this is better than Nvidia Parakeet V3? That has been my go-to model locally and it's hard to imagine there's something even better.
I liked Parakeet v3 a lot until it started to drop whole sentences, willy-nilly.
Oh god am I glad to read this. Thought it was my microphone or something.
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#185This demo is really impressive: https://huggingface.co/spaces/mistralai/Voxtral-Mini-Realtim... Don't be confused if it says "no microphone", the moment you click the record button it will request browser permission and then start working. I spoke fast and dropped in some jargon and it got it all right - I said this and it transcribed it exactly right, WebAssembly spelling included: > Can you tell me about RSS and At…
Having built with and tried every voice model over the last three years, real time and non-real time... this is off the charts compared to anything I've seen before. And open weight too! So grateful for this.
This past month Parakeet v3 dropped with a streaming ASR model that is 0.6B params, can run on a CPU and is super good.
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#186Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thank you for the link! Their playground in Mistral does not have a microphone. it just uploads files, which does not demonstrate the speed and accuracy, but the link you shared does. I tried speaking in 2 languages at once, and it picked it up correctly. Truly impressive for real-time.
> Truly impressive for real-time. Impressive indeed. Works way better than the speech recognition I first got demo'ed in... 1998? I remember you had to "click" on the mic everytime you wanted to speak and, well, not only the transcription was bad, it was so bad that it'd try to interpret the sound of the click as a word. It was so bad I told several people not to invest in what was back then a national tech darling:…
I used sell the Mac Voice Navigator (from Articulate Systems) in the 90s, which was a SCSI based hardware box that you plug into a Mac, Mac SE or Mac II. It used to use the same L&H speech recognition tech (if I recall correctly) and was called the "User Interface" of the future.
Horrible speech recognition rate and very glitchy. Customers hated it, and lots of returns/complaints.
A few years later, L&H went bankrupt. And so did Articulate Systems.
https://applerescueofdenver.com/products-page/macintosh-to-p...
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#187Ok, I guess this is the regular time for me to look for a local realtime transcription solution on Linux, and not finding anything good.
Maybe this'll get wrapped into a nice tool later.
Does anyone have any recommendations?
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#188Do we know if this is better than Nvidia Parakeet V3? That has been my go-to model locally and it's hard to imagine there's something even better.
I’m curious about this too. On my M1 Max MacBook I use the Handy app on macOS with Parakeet V3 and I get near instant transcription, accuracy slightly less than slower Whisper models, but that drop is immaterial when talking to CLI coding agents, which is where I find the most use for this.
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#189Do we know if this is better than Nvidia Parakeet V3? That has been my go-to model locally and it's hard to imagine there's something even better.
I liked Parakeet v3 a lot until it started to drop whole sentences, willy-nilly.
I didn’t see that but I do get a lot of stutters (words or syllables repeated 5+ times), not sure if it’s a model problem or post processing issue in the Handy app.
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#190It performs well on Mandarin audio transcription, considering it's an European company. It's weird though that it keeps adding spaces between single Chinese characters, and mixing traditional & simplified characters.