Hi all. I am Shahir. This was my experiment. First of all - Thanks to whoever posted this on HN. It came as a surprise.

Just to clarify - This started as just an experiment to see if we can use the fact that text and audio share a vector space in Embedding Gemma 2 to convert audio to text. Had to hack around a few things, but, it worked. Speed was just a side benefit. Was not aiming for it.

The accuracy is good, but not in the range of cloud models, but decent enough for everyday use, and this is just a couple of days work. The WER can improve a lot with more training on varied data. Will try that next.

I will opensource the whole thing soon. Might need a few days though. Also, releasing the TTS version for this soon.

Happy to answer any questions you have.