Whistle: Speech to Text in 16.9 MB

cactuscompute.com
October 8, 2026
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Summary
Today we release Whistle, a speech recognition model for mobiles, wearables, robots, smart home, automotive and microcontrollers. It is one 16.9 MB file, runs on the CPU with no dependencies, and loads into the same C++ engine as Needle, from the same container and the same quantisation. Whistle does three jobs, all of them on the device: - Transcription. 16 kHz mono audio, up to 30 seconds in one...
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