Tagged with asr
The Paper Says ARM Support. I Might Be the First to Actually Compile It
Microsoft released VibeVoice-ASR-BitNet, a speech recognition model that claims real-time transcription on CPUs, "targeting both ARM and x86". I put that to the test on an M1 Max, and debugged my way from a compile error to a beautiful NaN fingerprint, finding three upstream bugs along the way. A story about how to read model cards.
From 3 Hours to 30 Minutes: My Automated Chinese Subtitle Pipeline
A subtitle production line running on Apple Silicon — local ASR, on-screen term extraction, LLM correction, and a fail-safe quality gate. This post covers the architecture, the term-learning loop, and three lessons that took it from "it runs" to "it's reliable."