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80x faster than Whisper is an incredible feat. How is Deepgram's transcription accuracy?

Also, have you heard of Conformer-1 by Assembly-AI[1]? It released a few days ago and supposedly scored higher than Whisper on various benchmarks.

[1]: https://www.assemblyai.com/blog/conformer-1/

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In my experience the accuracy is at least a bit better than whisper-small on their enhanced models. But we've just started using it so haven't had time to do many direct comparisons with whisper. Their word-timestamps are _much_ better, which is important if you want to be able to edit the audio based on the transcription.

As for speed I have no idea how they make it so fast, but I'm sure they've written about it somewhere. My guess is at least that they are slicing the audio and parallelising it. Will look into Conformer-1 as well!

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