Moonshine
Lightweight on-device ASR model
Episodes
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#6052: What's Actually in the Hugging Face ASR Catalog?Four real architectural bets sit underneath thousands of Hugging Face ASR repos. Here's how to tell the bets from the repackagings. -
#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. -
#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? -
#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. -
#1564: The Death of the Cascaded PipelineForget basic transcription. Explore how native omni-modal models are capturing the "soul" of speech with near-instant latency. -
#1539: Escaping the Cloud Dictation TrapStop shouting at your phone. Discover how dedicated hardware and local AI are making instant, private voice-to-text a reality.