#speech recognition

AI Hardware

Cohere's 2B Transcribe Model Crushes ASR Benchmarks—But Only in English?

What if top-tier speech-to-text ran on your gaming rig, not a data center? Cohere's Transcribe just made that real, smashing rivals on benchmarks while staying open source.

AI Business

Google's WAXAL: African Speech Data That's Actually Usable – Or Just PR Polish?

Everyone figured Google would keep pumping English speech models forever. WAXAL flips that – sorta – with real African language data that's split smartly for ASR and TTS.

AI Hardware

Heidi's ASR Glow-Up: NVIDIA Nemotron on AWS Fixes Med Jargon – Or Does It?

2.4 million consultations a week. Heidi's AI promises clinician freedom. But stock ASR flops on doctor-speak – enter NVIDIA Nemotron fine-tuned on AWS.