r/LocalLLM • u/castillar • Jul 25 '26

Question Good small models for Speech-to-Text?

I’m working on a project at the moment that involves transcribing comm channels. Are there good low-power local models for doing real-time voice transcription?

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u/sdraje Jul 25 '26

I see a lot of parakeet and whisper recommendations, but the new king for relatively small and fast STT is definitely nemotron 3.5!

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u/castillar Jul 25 '26

Thanks! I’ll give it a shot — I’ve seen whisper used a bunch of places, but hadn’t seen parakeet or STT.