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Whistle, a 16.9 MB open speech recognition model supporting seven languages

Original article in KoreanWhistle - 16.9 MB로 구현한 음성 텍스트 변환

Outlet: GeekNews
Published: Oct 9, 2026
Importance: 2/5

Summary

Whistle is an open-source speech recognition model deployed as a single 16.9 MB file with no external dependencies. It runs on CPU, supports seven languages, and processes up to 30 seconds of 16 kHz mono audio with word-level timestamps and voice embeddings.

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