We trained diffusion-gemma-asr, an open-source speech recognition model that is 15x faster than Whisper, based on DiffusionGemma and Whisper Small. Instead of generating text one token at a time like Whisper, in diffusion-gemma-asr we transcribe by denoising an entire transcript in parallel. To...
Source: [Hacker News](https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.13013)