[GaggiX]

He was talking about STT models, not TTS. Whisper is open source and a good solution in many cases (in particular finetuned ones).

[pzo]

regarding STT we got also today 2 new models from Nvidia:

https://huggingface.co/nvidia/canary-180m-flash

https://huggingface.co/nvidia/canary-1b-flash

second in Open ASR leaderboard https://huggingface.co/spaces/hf-audio/open_asr_leaderboard

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