The A.I. Daily
Open-source Oído beats Whisper-tiny on a $5 microcontroller
The Lokutor team released Oído, an open-source speech recognition model using a 13M-parameter int8 NVIDIA Conformer-CTC Small that runs on an ESP32-S3 with 8MB PSRAM, no GPU or NPU. It achieves LibriSpeech WER of 3.7/8.2 versus 6.3/15.9 for Whisper tiny.en.