I wanted to share our new speech to text model, and the library to use them effectively. We're a small startup (six people, sub-$100k monthly GPU budget) so I'm proud of the work the team has done to create streaming STT models with lower word-error rates than OpenAI's largest Whisper model. Admittedly Large v3 is a couple of years old, but we're near the top the HF OpenASR leaderboard, even up against Nvidia's Parakeet family. Anyway, I'd love to get feedback on the models and software, and hear about what people might build with it.
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cyanydeez•1h ago
No LICENSE no go
bangaladore•1h ago
There is a license blurb in the readme.
> This code, apart from the source in core/third-party, is licensed under the MIT License, see LICENSE in this repository.
> The English-language models are also released under the MIT License. Models for other languages are released under the Moonshine Community License, which is a non-commercial license.
> The code in core/third-party is licensed according to the terms of the open source projects it originates from, with details in a LICENSE file in each subfolder.
altruios•1h ago
reading through readme.md
"License
This code, apart from the source in core/third-party, is licensed under the MIT License, see LICENSE in this repository.
The English-language models are also released under the MIT License. Models for other languages are released under the Moonshine Community License, which is a non-commercial license.
The code in core/third-party is licensed according to the terms of the open source projects it originates from, with details in a LICENSE file in each subfolder."
This is awesome, well done guys, I’m gonna try it as my ASR component on the local voice assistant I’ve been building https://github.com/acatovic/ova. The tiny streaming latencies you show look insane
ac29•40m ago
No idea why 'sudo pip install --break-system-packages moonshine-voice' is the recommended way to install on raspi?
The authors do acknowledge this though and give a slightly too complex way to do this with uv in an example project (FYI, you dont need to source anything if you use uv run)
g-mork•36m ago
How does this compare to Parakeet, which runs wonderfully on CPU?
pzo•25m ago
haven't tested yet but I'm wondering how it will behave when talking about many IT jargon and tech acronyms. For those reason I had to mostly run LLM after STT but that was slowing done parakeet inference. Otherwise had problems to detect properly sometimes when talking about e.g. about CoreML, int8, fp16, half float, ARKit, AVFoundation, ONNX etc.
sroussey•19m ago
onnx models for browser possible?
asqueella•15m ago
For those wondering about the language support, currently English, Arabic, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, Spanish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese are available (most in Base size = 58M params)
Karrot_Kream•11m ago
According to the OpenASR Leaderboard [1], looks like Parakeet V2/V3 and Canary-Qwen (a Qwen finetune) handily beat Moonshine. All 3 models are open, but Parakeet is the smallest of the 3. I use Parakeet V3 with Handy and it works great locally for me.
cyanydeez•1h ago
bangaladore•1h ago
> This code, apart from the source in core/third-party, is licensed under the MIT License, see LICENSE in this repository.
> The English-language models are also released under the MIT License. Models for other languages are released under the Moonshine Community License, which is a non-commercial license.
> The code in core/third-party is licensed according to the terms of the open source projects it originates from, with details in a LICENSE file in each subfolder.
altruios•1h ago
The English-language models are also released under the MIT License. Models for other languages are released under the Moonshine Community License, which is a non-commercial license.
The code in core/third-party is licensed according to the terms of the open source projects it originates from, with details in a LICENSE file in each subfolder."