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whistle
▲ 1.7%whistle is an audio model released by Cactus-Compute. The model is registered under the automatic-speech-recognition pipeline tag on Hugging Face, distributed under the permissive apache-2.0 license.
The apache-2.0 license is permissive, allowing commercial deployment and derivative work without per-seat fees, though attribution requirements still apply.
Downloads of whistle have moved +1.7% over the past 24 hours, +156.7% over the trailing seven days. That puts the model in active uptrend territory; a sustained move of this size usually reflects a recent release, a viral integration, or a benchmark surprise rather than steady-state demand. These numbers are signal, not guarantee — week-over-week download counts on Hugging Face also reflect mirror traffic, CI scrapes, and one-off benchmarking runs.
whistle is best fit for speech recognition, transcription, or speech synthesis depending on the task head. Treat this as a starting matrix rather than a benchmark verdict — the right deployment usually depends on the specific evaluation suite that mirrors your workload.
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WhisTLE: Deeply Supervised, Text-Only Domain Adaptation for Small Pretrained Speech Recognition Transformers
arXiv:2509.10452v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Pretrained automatic speech recognition (ASR) models such as Whisper perform well but still need domain adaptation to handle unseen parlance. In many real-world settings, collecting speech data is impractical, necessitating text-only adaptati
WhisTLE: Deeply Supervised, Text-Only Domain Adaptation for Pretrained Speech Recognition Transformers
arXiv:2509.10452v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Pretrained automatic speech recognition (ASR) models such as Whisper perform well but still need domain adaptation to handle unseen parlance. In many real-world settings, collecting speech data is impractical, necessitating text-only adaptation. We
