Whistle is a 55M parameter (36M active) CQ2bit quantized ASR model designed for microcontrollers and budget phones. It outperforms Whisper base in size and speed, achieving 4.31 WER on LibriSpeech test-clean while occupying 9x less storage.
HOW THIS AFFECTS YOU
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builderYou can now deploy high-performance speech-to-text on hardware with extremely limited memory and compute.
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designerThis enables more responsive, local-first voice interfaces in wearables and smart home devices.