Comment by mrkn1
4 days ago
thank you. You nailed the actual value, that's right. The real win is just knowing you can do this on a laptop CPU, offline, no GPU or cloud bill. There are tiny done-for-you details, like rescaling token timestamps back to real time after the atempo speedup so --timestamps doesn't lie to you, but they are minor.
Why the choice of Kroko over something like parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3, which is also faster than realtime on CPU?
Kroko models are more accurate and their size is just a hundred megabytes compared to parakeet (2.5 gigabytes in default fp32)
Do you have a link to results confirming this? Kroko does not seem to be on the Open ASR Leaderboard. Parakeet has an average WER of 6.32 across several common datasets.
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