Article:Jakub Mroz, Henry Ndubuaku
Whistle: Open-Source Speech-to-Text in 16.9 MB
Cactus Compute has released Whistle, a lightweight speech recognition model packaged into a single 16.9 MB file. Running on CPU without external dependencies, it shares its C++ engine with Needle to convert audio directly into tool calls.
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