From my point of view, Parakeet is not very good at formatting the output, so it would be nice if a small model focused on having nicely formatted (and correct) text, not just the lowest WER score. Rewarding the model for inserting logical line breaks, quotation marks, etc.
I'm interested in pushing the envelope a bit on the raspberry Pi to do personal assistant projects with it. The pi zero 2 is a surprisingly powerful little device, it is comparable to a pi 3B, except it has less RAM.
Perhaps his YouTube channel is worth a watch. This video from four months ago compares various STT tools: https://youtu.be/pKU9CABtnOw
Speaking of apps that would, if I had to guess, love to integrate you:
FluidVoice is incredible and developing quickly. Handy is really hot right now. Also have VoiceInk out there, solid iOS option.
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