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It's an ANE optimized version of Parakeet, with our own inference, which enabled us to push performance to about 300x realtime speed on an iPhone 16/17. Our next gen Voz model is trained from scratch and will be at least twice as fast. Android and other platforms will land soon.

I understand. And inference optimizations are great. It's just that it's not a new model, and that's what I was excited about. I work on cross-platform transcription inference and was hoping for something more than just a re-badged parakeet v3

Look forward to the next model

This seems to be a common theme with these "European sovereign AI" companies. Mostly built on top of other open source work and slightly adjusted, often to collect grant money (although I'm not sure about that last part in this case).

Even worse, they made their additions proprietary:

> How much does Voz cost?

> Every model is free up to 100k monthly active devices per SDK. Unlimited inference per user. Contact us for custom licenses.

Nice, now I know what I actually need.

I was also thinking that this is almost too good to be true