What’s really shocking is this and many of the competitors are all using OpenAI whisper - which came out in 2022. (Once upon a time, OpenAI really did open research)

It’s surprising in 2026 this is still the default “best” all rounder. Kudos to the early OpenAI team and the open community efforts / improved models since then.

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kartik017 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

no it's a really old and bad stt model i am using parakeet v3 here which is way superior

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sunnybeetroot 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Is there anything better for speech to text model?

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eajr 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Yes, parakeet. Ive switched all my apps to using it. Fantastic model

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sunnybeetroot 3 hours ago | parent [-]

That is great! Just no fast inference like cerebras or groq support it

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vardalab 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Parakeet is blindingly fast on modern hardware. My MacBook is just so fast, it's not even funny. But despite that, I still often use OpenWhisper because it just does better for accented voices. I also fine-tuned Qwen ASR on my voice, and that one is faster than Open Whisper, but I think I might even go back to Open Whisper eventually Because it still makes a lot of weird mistakes And I think it is over-indexed towards the fine tune And substitutes quite often wrong dictionary words for ambiguous words.

	▲	kartik017 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		openwhispr dx is really bad, i made this product because i was tired that no one is working on accuracy and dx in general. betterwispr main goal is to have accuracy and best dx possible.
	▲	sunnybeetroot 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Server side though?

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kartik017 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

parakeet v3 betterwispr uses that.