Whissle Open-Sources 70MB Arc Streaming Speech Model

WhissleAI released Arc, a ~70MB streaming speech model that every 100ms outputs transcript, roster name linking, numbers, speakers and event tags in one pass, collapsing separate ASR, NER and entity-linking steps. Two variants, Arc mini and Arc-v1, ship with open weights and code and power its Mac app.

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