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		atiorh 87 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Nvidia PersonaPlex 7B on Apple Silicon: Full-Duple... MacWhisper supports 10x faster models with the same accuracy like Parakeet v2 (they were the first to do it 6-9 months ago). Have you tried those?

jwr 87 days ago [–]

Yes. I found Parakeet V3 (1.24GB) to be worse than Whisper (Large v3 Turbo, 20240930). Subtly worse, but still. I went back to Whisper because with dictation if you can't trust the tool, you won't bother to dictate.

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