Comment by jwr

It's interesting that the results can be so different depending on the person, the use case and even the microphone used. I use dictation a lot, so I try to stay up to date with the latest models as much as I can. So far, for my needs, nothing could beat Whisper Large v3. I keep hearing that Nvidia Parakeet models are better, but they just don't work as well for me, even though they are unquestionably faster.

Things change a lot if you need to speak to the model in multiple languages. There are very few models out there that can automatically detect the language spoken and produce correct output.

I tried the larger Voxtral models, but they didn't work for me at all. When I spoke to them in Polish, they produced output in Russian or Ukrainian.

For now, I settled on creating my own plugin for TypeWhisper, which runs Whisper Large on the GPU and does it much faster than pretty much anything else out there. But I'm still hoping that something better will come along, as Whisper Large is quite old at this point.