Whisper
machine learning model for speech recognition and transcription
Episodes
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#5485: Fine-Tuning Parakeet for Hebrew and Your Own JargonNVIDIA's Parakeet beats Whisper on Android — but can you teach it Hebrew, or just your own jargon? Two answers, one much happier.Main topic -
#5464: Your Keyboard's Hidden Data ProblemYour keyboard knows your email address, your phrases, your habits — and you can't take any of it with you.Main topic -
#5456: Parakeet vs Whisper: Picking a Phone ASR ModelWhy Whisper loses on Android, why Parakeet v2 beat v3, and how to benchmark speech-to-text without any tooling.Main topic -
#5430: Two Boxes: ASR and the Text Fixer Behind ItPunctuation, casing, ITN, disfluency — the four-job layer between raw ASR output and text you can actually read.Main topic -
#5422: Switching Android Keyboards Without the Tap DanceOne listener wants a one-tap jump between his Parakeet voice keyboard and his typing keyboard. Android says no — unless you know the trick.Main topic -
#5419: The Attention Budget in Your PocketWhy phone dictation runs out of room, and how bounded attention windows buy you punctuation without blowing your memory budget.Main topic -
#5390: Chaining Small Models for Dictation CleanupDaniel's Android dictation fork won't render "three point five" as a decimal. How many models does cleanup actually need?Main topic -
#5482: When AI Edits Your Words: The Off Switch ProblemA tool that works reliably — and still gets switched off. What over-editing studies reveal about why AI rewrites more than you asked. -
#5460: Four Small Models, One Android Phone: Does It Actually Work?A chained on-device dictation pipeline — VAD, ASR, cleanup — and why "it feels smooth" isn't the same as knowing it works. -
#5388: Android's Split Keyboard and Voice Input ProblemAndroid separates keyboards from speech engines by design. Most apps weld them back together. -
#5384: Android ASR Runtimes: LiteRT, ExecuTorch, and Why Your Phone Has No VRAMWhy does your phone have no VRAM number? A tour of Android's runtime layer and what it takes to run ASR locally.