-
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.
Read
-
Engineering 2026-05-25
Whisper vs Parakeet TDT which open model wins in 2026
Parakeet TDT is 3-5x faster on CPU, English-only. Whisper covers 99 languages and has 1000+ fine-tunes. Head-to-head benchmarks, accuracy numbers, and when to pick each.
Read
-
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.
Read