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Engineering 2026-06-28
Parakeet TDT v3 vs Whisper Turbo vs Qwen3-ASR what people actually use in production
Parakeet TDT v3 wins on CPU latency for short commands. Whisper Turbo leads on accented speech and domain vocab. Qwen3-ASR for code-mixed. Production tradeoffs for voice AI agents.
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Engineering 2026-05-25
Whisper vs Parakeet TDT which open model wins in 2026
Same ~2.6% WER on clean English, but Parakeet runs ~30x real-time on CPU vs Whisper Small's ~8x. Whisper covers 99 languages, Parakeet 25 with punctuation.
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Engineering 2026-05-23
How whisper.cpp works under the hood
ggml-tiny.bin is not a pip package - it's a GGML model file. whisper.cpp runs Whisper as a C++ binary, no Python, no PyTorch. Metal/Vulkan/CUDA GPU backends.
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