I’ve tested at least 20 STT models in a benchmark I’ve set up with German, Italian and English voices from meetings in my company.

The voices contained very industry specific words, the languages changed from one sentence to another, sometimes words in a language were mentioned while a discussion was in another.

The only local model that satisfies me is Voxtral Mini 3b, the only paid API that is slightly better is eleven labs. Yes, Voxtral might not reach the best score in the benchmarks, but to me, it just solves a problem. It might not be the best in terms of speed... but that’s not a problem for me.

Happy to test this new model from Google but I’m not sure I’d go with that instead of something that can run so easily in my machine.

I've been testing it on Pixel 11 Pro and I mostly dislike it. It is convenient when you have something long to say without thinking about it first. But the main issue is when you want to say something precise with specific wording it might "simplify" it and break the meaning.

Something like "I hesitated to check it, I should have verified" => "I should have verified" (The "I hesitated..." is removed but I said it because I wanted to let the person know that I thought about it earlier)

I tried the sentence few times and it always removed the first part.

Curious if this suffers from the same hallucination problems as Chirp or not. For example, if you pass chirp some audio with noise or even no audio, it will barf text at you like "I don't know. I don't know. I don't know." until a request timeout fires after like 10 minutes. It's... really bad. For this reason, we've moved back to Whisper for timestamp accuracy and then Gemini Flash for transcription correction.

That's really impressive! It says it's available in GBoard on Android but I don't see it yet. I assume like most Google features it will be a rolling release over the course of several months, can't wait to try it some day.

I am not sure if "Word Error Rate" captures what has always been wrong with transcription. My biggest complaint is that it inserts sentence breaks in random places, then fails to evaluate the result, even though it is obviously wrong. Then I have to go fix it which can be harder than having just typed it myself, due to the difficulty of positioning the Android cursor, the fact that it automatically capitalizes if you delete a capital letter, etc. And much of the time I fail to notice the errors until later.

Where does the compute happen?

I suppose it's a cloud thing?

Hopefully YouTube automatic captions improve with this

I'd love to know how this handles proper subtitle formatting. I'm in the process of learning many languages, and being able to cross check my own understanding with film and video would be fantastic.

Does somebody knows what top locales list is sampled from? their own usage data? Also when they will use their AI to give better directions in Waze?

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