Benchmarking Google Eloquent Exposes Major On-Device Dictation Reliability Issues
r/LocalLLaMA top day3 days agoBenchmarkA LocalLLaMA user tried to benchmark Google’s new fully local dictation app, Eloquent, against open ASR models such as Qwen3-ASR and NVIDIA Parakeet V3. The tester reported that roughly half of dictations returned only fragments, even during manual use. When Eloquent produced complete transcripts, its word error rate was competitive, but the missing-output behavior made the app unreliable for evaluation and practical use.
Dockerized Nemotron 3.5 ASR: Better Multilingual Support & Streaming (4.5x CPU Speed)
r/LocalLLaMA top day7 days agoNew ToolA developer on Reddit shared a Dockerized implementation of Nemotron 3.5 ASR, migrating from Parakeet. The system supports over 40 languages and features a native streaming architecture that avoids full-file buffering. Using the onnxruntime-genai backend, it achieves 4.5x real-time speed on CPU, with CUDA support planned but untested.