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Re:How Fast is Python 3.15? on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @07:33PM (#49985709)
35 years on since the first public Python release and there's still so much room for improvement in its performance. These tests by Miguel are a useful quick check on that progress in 3.15 even if as he admits it's impossible to get "an objective and universal measure of the performance of a programming language".
AssemblyAI (YC S17) is currently the one that stands out in the WER and accuracy benchmarks (https://www.assemblyai.com/benchmarks). Though its models are accessed through a web API rather than locally hosted, and speaker diarization is enabled through a parameter in the API call (https://www.assemblyai.com/docs/speech-to-text/pre-recorded-...).

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