Best local ASR & TTS so far: Qwen3-ASR beats Whisper, Kokoro tops TTS
Potential_Block4598 · reddit · 2026-11-03
Building a low-latency, browser-capable multilingual (EN/AR/DE/FR/ES) voice app, a Redditor benchmarks local speech models. ASR verdict: Qwen3-ASR > Whisper > Kroko — Qwen3-ASR is roughly Whisper Large/Turbo-sized but natively streams, is fast server-side, and has among the lowest error rates; their prior stack was Kroko in-browser for low latency plus Whisper server-side correction. TTS verdict: KokoroTTS (long sentences) > Piper (single words); they plan to try Qwen3-TTS next.
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