alt Hacker NewsAccording to the OpenASR Leaderboard [1], looks like Parakeet V2/V3 and Canary-Qwen (a Qwen finetune) handily beat Moonshine. All 3 models are open, but Parakeet is the smallest of the 3. I use Parakeet V3 with Handy and it works great locally for me.
[1]: https://huggingface.co/spaces/hf-audio/open_asr_leaderboard
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Was a big fan of Handy until I found Hex, which, incredibly, has even faster transcription (with Parakeet V3), it’s MacOS only:
By the way, I've been using a Whisper model, specifically WhisperX, to do all my work, and for whatever reason I just simply was not familiar with the Handy app. I've now downloaded and used it, and what a great suggestion. Thank you for putting it here, along with the direct link to the leaderboard.
I can tell that this is now definitely going to be my go-to model and app on all my clients.
I'm building a local-first transcription iOS app and have been on Whisper Medium, switching to Parakeet V3 based on this.
One note for anyone using Handy with codex-cli on macOS: the default "Option + Space" shortcut inserts spaces mid-speech. "Left Ctrl + Fn" works cleanly instead. I'm curious to know which shortcuts you're using.
why V3 over V2 (assuming English only)?
To this comment and all the other comments talking about handy below this comment. I tried handy right now and it's super amazing. I'm speaking this from Handy. This is so cool, man.
And handy even takes care of all the punctuation, which is really nice.
Thanks a lot for suggesting it to me. I actually wanted something like this, and I was using something like Google Docs, and it required me to use Chrome to get the speech to text version, and I actually ended up using Orion for that because Orion can actually work as a Chrome for some reason while still having both Firefox and Chrome extension support. So and I had it installed, but yeah.
This is really amazing and actually a sort of lifesaver actually, so thanks a lot, man.
Now I can actually just speak and this can convert this to text without having to go through any non-local model or Google Docs or whatever anything else.
Why is this so good man? It's so good
man, I actually now am thinking that I had like fully maxed out my typing speed to like hundred-120. But like this can actually write it faster. you know it's pretty amazing actually.
Have a nice day, or as I abbreviate it, HAND, smiley face. :D
hmmm looks like assembyAI is still unbeatable here in terms of cost/performance unless im mistaken
edit: holy shit parakeet is good.... Moonshine impressive too and it is half the param
Now if only there was something just as quick as Parakeet v3 for TTS ! Then I can talk to codex all day long!!!
How much VRAM does parakeet take for you? For some reason it takes 4GB+ for me using the onyx version even though it’s 600M parameters
Parakeet V3 is over twice the parameter count of Moonshine Medium (600m vs 245m), so it's not an apples to apples comparison.
I'm actually a little surprised they haven't added model size to that chart.