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I've been using Nvidia's parakeet model, it's been better than Whisper v3 large and smaller. Only supports English. https://huggingface.co/nvidia/parakeet-tdt-

by ipsum2 1y ago

I've been using Nvidia's parakeet model, it's been better than Whisper v3 large and smaller. Only supports English. https://huggingface.co/nvidia/parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v2 https://huggingface.co/nvidia/parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v2

nico 1y ago
Does it need a newer GPU? Or can it run on just CPU? Would it run on a raspberry pi?
- GaggiX 1y ago
  Look up for faster whisper or distilled whisper models, smaller models run quite nicely but perform poorly outside of English, if you are interested in a different language it's better to finetune it (HuggingFace has a huge amount of finetuned Whisper models).
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- ipsum2 1y ago
  If you want real-time, it requires a GPU, but can be underpowered. CPU is a little slower but works fine.
- lupusreal 1y ago
  Best CPU TTS that can run on something like a raspberry pi is Piper. It can do real time synthesis on a raspberry pi and on a real computer it runs several times faster with negligible performance cost. I use it for 'reading' ebooks when my eyes get tired. The quality is roughly on par with where Mac OS's TTS was ~10 years ago (the last time I used it.) You can tell it's TTS, but it's good enough that you can become accustomed to it fairly easily. https://github.com/rhasspy/piper https://github.com/rhasspy/piper
  - GaggiX 1y ago
    They are talking about STT, not TTS, but as a TTS piper is very good and works nicely on a raspberry pi, I agree.
  - dv35z 1y ago
    What voices do you recommend? The ones I had checked out (about a year ago) - the voices were mostly european-sounding, and flat, and not so natural-sounding. Is Piper the best open-source text-to-speech engine out there?
    - haiku2077 1y ago
      You can also try Kokoro and Sherpa. If this is for personal use the best local TTS is to grab a Mac, set the system voice to one of the current Siri voice models, and then use the 'say' command in the terminal. Yes, really. The nonbinary voice #5 in particular does really well at technical terminology.
100xlong 1y ago
are there any linux/mac apps that allow people to use parakeet for daily dictation like SuperWhisper?
- ipsum2 1y ago
  Sort of, check out https://github.com/senstella/parakeet-mlx https://github.com/senstella/parakeet-mlx.
PeterStuer 1y ago
In my side by side testing of Whisper and Parakeet in transcribing Euro-English meeting recordings, Whisper produced the better result, but Parakeet was faster. I'm sticking with Whisper as it is fast enough for my use case.

by ipsum2 1y ago

nico 1y ago

Does it need a newer GPU? Or can it run on just CPU? Would it run on a raspberry pi?

GaggiX 1y ago
Look up for faster whisper or distilled whisper models, smaller models run quite nicely but perform poorly outside of English, if you are interested in a different language it's better to finetune it (HuggingFace has a huge amount of finetuned Whisper models).
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ipsum2 1y ago
If you want real-time, it requires a GPU, but can be underpowered. CPU is a little slower but works fine.
lupusreal 1y ago
Best CPU TTS that can run on something like a raspberry pi is Piper. It can do real time synthesis on a raspberry pi and on a real computer it runs several times faster with negligible performance cost. I use it for 'reading' ebooks when my eyes get tired. The quality is roughly on par with where Mac OS's TTS was ~10 years ago (the last time I used it.) You can tell it's TTS, but it's good enough that you can become accustomed to it fairly easily. https://github.com/rhasspy/piper https://github.com/rhasspy/piper
- GaggiX 1y ago
  They are talking about STT, not TTS, but as a TTS piper is very good and works nicely on a raspberry pi, I agree.
- dv35z 1y ago
  What voices do you recommend? The ones I had checked out (about a year ago) - the voices were mostly european-sounding, and flat, and not so natural-sounding. Is Piper the best open-source text-to-speech engine out there?
  - haiku2077 1y ago
    You can also try Kokoro and Sherpa. If this is for personal use the best local TTS is to grab a Mac, set the system voice to one of the current Siri voice models, and then use the 'say' command in the terminal. Yes, really. The nonbinary voice #5 in particular does really well at technical terminology.

100xlong 1y ago

are there any linux/mac apps that allow people to use parakeet for daily dictation like SuperWhisper?

ipsum2 1y ago
Sort of, check out https://github.com/senstella/parakeet-mlx https://github.com/senstella/parakeet-mlx.

PeterStuer 1y ago

In my side by side testing of Whisper and Parakeet in transcribing Euro-English meeting recordings, Whisper produced the better result, but Parakeet was faster. I'm sticking with Whisper as it is fast enough for my use case.