#custom-asr
9 episodes
#5485: Fine-Tuning Parakeet for Hebrew and Your Own Jargon
NVIDIA's Parakeet beats Whisper on Android — but can you teach it Hebrew, or just your own jargon? Two answers, one much happier.
#5430: Two Boxes: ASR and the Text Fixer Behind It
Punctuation, casing, ITN, disfluency — the four-job layer between raw ASR output and text you can actually read.
#5390: Chaining Small Models for Dictation Cleanup
Daniel's Android dictation fork won't render "three point five" as a decimal. How many models does cleanup actually need?
#5388: Android's Split Keyboard and Voice Input Problem
Android separates keyboards from speech engines by design. Most apps weld them back together.
#4194: Custom GPTs: When to Build, When to Skip
A decision framework for knowing when a custom GPT is worth the overhead — and when to just open a fresh chat.
#2641: Bridging Analog and Digital Note-Taking
How Nano Banana finally solves the text rendering problem, turning messy whiteboard photos into polished tech diagrams.
#9: Benchmarking Custom ASR Tools - Beyond The WER
Benchmarking custom ASR fine-tunes: We're diving deep beyond the WER to truly measure performance.
#7: Building Custom ASR Tools
Ever wondered how to build your own ASR tools from scratch? Discover the why and how in this episode!
#8: Building Your Own Whisper
Ever wondered if you could build your own speech recognition tool? We dive deep into crafting custom ASR.