Speech-to-text

Moonshine Streaming Medium requirements, license & speed

By Moonshine AI (Useful Sensors) · released 2026-01-06 · 245M parameters

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Commercial useYes
Min memoryTargets sub-1 GB memory edge devices
Runs on CPUYes
StreamingYes

Key facts

License
mit source
Commercial use
Yes source
MIT (streaming models are MIT in all languages)
Parameters
245M source
Tiny 34M / Small 123M variants also available
Minimum memory
Targets sub-1 GB memory edge devices source
Design target, not a measured minimum
Runs on CPU
Yes source
Built for edge-class hardware
Streaming
Yes source
Voice cloning
n/a (speech-to-text)
Languages
en source
Released
2026-01-06 source
Hugging Face repo creation date (proxy for release date)
Gated on HF
No

Measured speed & memory

Benchmark pending. We haven't measured Moonshine Streaming Medium 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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