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A new automatic speech recognition model, Diffusion-gemma-asr, achieves 15x faster inference than OpenAI's Whisper by freezing a Whisper-small encoder and DiffusionGemma weights and adding a 42M param…

Interfaze, a research lab, released diffusion-gemma-asr, the first open-source diffusion ASR audio model that is 15x faster than OpenAI's Whisper. The model achieves a 6.6% word error rate on Librispe…

A new study from arXiv shows that multilingual encoder initialization benefits streaming automatic speech recognition (ASR) only at low target-language data scales, with the advantage decaying as data…