First Open-Source Diffusion ASR Model Runs 15x Faster Than Whisper
bodonoghue85 · x · 2026-07-03
interfazeai has open-sourced the first automatic speech recognition (ASR) system based on a diffusion model. By integrating DiffusionGemma and Whisper technologies, it achieves inference speeds 15 times faster than Whisper. This marks the first application of diffusion models in open-source ASR, delivering a significant speed breakthrough while maintaining Whisper's recognition quality, and paving a new technical path for real-time voice applications.
More from Models
- Bug Hunt Bench ranks frontier coding models on 105 planted real-repo bugs — PawelHuryn · 2026-09-11
- GPT-6 Astra beats Factorio with enemies in 44 in-game hours at ~$4,500 API cost — liminal_bardo · 2026-09-11
- 105 hidden bugs, 2 repos: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash fixes 24 at $1.80 vs Opus 5's 27 at $51.33 — ChartsJournalX · 2026-09-11
- awesome-llm-leaderboards: an open-source directory of LLM leaderboards, pricing tables, comparison tools — Last_Establishment_1 · 2026-09-11
- Anthropic claims it works to keep eval environments unidentifiable to models — MaxKannen · 2026-09-11
- Nex N2.5 Pro released on Hugging Face with 407GB of weights — jinnyjuice · 2026-09-11