Speech and audio·EASYHUB JOURNAL
Cactus releases Whistle, a 16.9MB on-device speech recognizer for seven languages running locally on CPU
What changed
Cactus Compute released the open speech-recognition model Whistle on October 2. Its packaged runtime file is 16.9MB and runs locally on CPU through the same C++/WebAssembly engine used by Needle, without sending audio to the cloud. It supports English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch and Polish, and exposes word-level timestamps plus speech embeddings. The Hugging Face model card is licensed under Apache 2.0.
- Original title
- Whistle: Speech to Text in 16.9 MB
- Source
- Hugging Face · huggingface.co
- Topic
- Speech and audio
- Source month
- 2026-10
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