Imagine an alternate timeline where Mozilla had named this project “FreeSpeech” instead as a free and open TTS solution.
echelon•1h ago
My personal little conspiracy theory is that Google pays Mozilla as an antitrust shield.
A lot of us pretty much assume that much, but I think it goes much deeper.
I think Google pays and maintains a working relationship with the CEO of Mozilla (current and former) to purposely keep the organization rudderless, uncompetitive, and shrinking.
Mozilla spends its money building a 3D VR metaverse here, a bunch of AI models it later scraps over there, a web3 / distributed social program, etc. It scraps Rust, doesn't invest into Firefox. Just silly toys and experiments.
That nice CEO salary is hush money.
Just a fun little pet theory, totally not based on evidence.
ipsum2•3h ago
I've been using Nvidia's parakeet model, it's been better than Whisper v3 large and smaller. Only supports English.
Does it need a newer GPU? Or can it run on just CPU?
Would it run on a raspberry pi?
GaggiX•3h ago
Look up for faster whisper or distilled whisper models, smaller models run quite nicely but perform poorly outside of English, if you are interested in a different language it's better to finetune it (HuggingFace has a huge amount of finetuned Whisper models).
ipsum2•2h ago
If you want real-time, it requires a GPU, but can be underpowered. CPU is a little slower but works fine.
100xlong•1h ago
are there any linux/mac apps that allow people to use parakeet for daily dictation like SuperWhisper?
msgodel•2h ago
I still prefer festival, it's fast, it's in all the package repos, and I don't like automations having realistic voices.
i80and•2h ago
They're opposites: DeepSpeech is speech to text, where Festival is TTS
dabinat•3h ago
https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/future-of-deepspeech-stt-aft...
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echelon•1h ago
A lot of us pretty much assume that much, but I think it goes much deeper.
I think Google pays and maintains a working relationship with the CEO of Mozilla (current and former) to purposely keep the organization rudderless, uncompetitive, and shrinking.
Mozilla spends its money building a 3D VR metaverse here, a bunch of AI models it later scraps over there, a web3 / distributed social program, etc. It scraps Rust, doesn't invest into Firefox. Just silly toys and experiments.
That nice CEO salary is hush money.
Just a fun little pet theory, totally not based on evidence.