This is wonderful, thank you for sharing!
Do you have any sense of whether this type of model would work with children's speech? There are plenty of educational applications that would value a privacy-first locally deployed model. But, my understanding is that Whisper performs pretty poorly with younger speakers.
Thank you! And you’re right, I think Whisper struggles with younger voices. Haven’t tested Parakeet or other models for this yet, but that’s a great use case (especially since privacy matters in education). I would also shoutout Hypernote! (https://hyprnote.com/) They might be expanding their model options, as they have shown with OWhisper (https://docs.hyprnote.com/owhisper/what-is-this).