Speech-to-text

Moonshine Base requirements, license & speed

By Moonshine AI (Useful Sensors) · released 2024-11-02 · 61M parameters

Commercial useYes
Min memoryNot stated
Runs on CPUYes
StreamingNo

Key facts

License
mit source
Commercial use
Yes source
MIT for English; legacy non-English non-streaming models are non-commercial
Parameters
61M source
Minimum memory
Not stated by source
Runs on CPU
Yes source
Designed for memory/compute-constrained platforms
Streaming
No source
Legacy non-streaming model
Voice cloning
n/a (speech-to-text)
Languages
en source
Released
2024-11-02 source
Hugging Face repo creation date (proxy for release date)
Gated on HF
No

Measured speed & memory

Benchmark pending. We haven't measured Moonshine Base yet. Planned targets: Raspberry Pi 5, CPU-only x86, Apple Silicon Mac and consumer GPUs. Get notified.

Accuracy

We don't run accuracy evals. For word error rate, check the Hugging Face Open ASR Leaderboard.

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