Show HN: Moonshine Open-Weights STT models – higher accuracy than WhisperLargev3
petewarden Tuesday, February 24, 2026
I wanted to share our new speech to text model, and the library to use them effectively. We're a small startup (six people, sub-$100k monthly GPU budget) so I'm proud of the work the team has done to create streaming STT models with lower word-error rates than OpenAI's largest Whisper model. Admittedly Large v3 is a couple of years old, but we're near the top the HF OpenASR leaderboard, even up against Nvidia's Parakeet family. Anyway, I'd love to get feedback on the models and software, and hear about what people might build with it.
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Moonshine is an open-source AI assistant that offers a simple yet powerful interface for natural language processing tasks. It provides capabilities such as text generation, question answering, and sentiment analysis, empowering users to leverage advanced AI technologies in their projects.
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