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Earlybird: Predictive Streaming Speech Recognition in 29M Parameters
arXiv cs.AI · Published · 1 min read
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- What happened
- Earlybird is a 29-million-parameter streaming speech recognizer that predicts words 90 milliseconds before speakers finish them, versus 90-400 ms after for existing models.
- Why it matters
- Voice agent developers need faster word recognition to reduce latency between user speech and agent response, improving perceived responsiveness.
- Watch out
- Performance gains shown primarily on clean audiobook speech; real-world noisy environments and non-English languages not thoroughly evaluated in this work.
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