How it worksCactus Whistle vs Whisper Base CPU benchmark shows tiny model holds its ownHerald of AI
How it works
Cactus Whistle vs Whisper Base CPU benchmark shows tiny model holds its own
A 16.9 MB speech‑to‑text model leads greedy Whisper base on harder LibriSpeech splits, but no significant gap exists against beam search; the pinned engine also silently drops the middle of longer audio clips beyond ~30 seconds.

