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Re:Show HN: Whispering – Open-source, local-first dictation ... by braden-w on Tuesday August 19, 2025 @01:16AM (#44948463)
Not that I know of. I think the two most prominent open-source models that we hear about are Whisper and Parakeet!
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Re:Show HN: Whispering – Open-source, local-first dictation ... by pabs3 on Wednesday August 20, 2025 @12:40AM (#44958672)
Whisper doesn't list its training data (or code?), so can't be an open-source model, just an open weights model.

Parakeet does list its training data, and at least one of those is not FOSS, but some of them definitely are FOSS. I wonder if they nVidia would create a fully FOSS model by retraining on only the open data.

https://huggingface.co/nvidia/parakeet-rnnt-1.1b#datasets https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2004T19 https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/license/ldc-non-members-agreem...

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