Thanks, was looking at a better diarization model.

Even for those sorts of apps, MacParakeet which I've been using is FOSS so no payment needed. In reality these days with AI the ability to spin up a free and/or OSS competitor falls to zero.

I’m not even using it for diarisation just transcription and it’s amazing. It also doesn’t need a VAD

A new VAD I found though is FireRedVAD which has better benchmark results than TEN and Silero by far

Is MOSS a streaming model or only for offline? For that VAD how are you integrating it into a model like Whisper etc?

I'm using it offline. But it's much faster than realtime so it should be usable for streaming. I just asked Codex / Sol to integrate FireRedVAD with Whisper...

16GB! (edit: this is wrong, I was looking at TTS, the transcribe model is 1.7GB). Compared to Parakeet 2.3GB (but no diarization).

Also doesn't seem to be tailored to Apple hardware (i.e. no MLX or ANE variant/implementation)

I am running the MLX fork https://huggingface.co/vanch007/mlx-MOSS-Transcribe-Diarize

Generally labs don't release MLX or ANE versions and we must rely on finding someone who's converted it

Parakeet is not multilingual so not directly comparable

Where do you see 16GB? MOSS is smaller than Parakeet at 1.82GB

Thanks, I didn't see vanch007 version at first (only ~30 downloads), I usually look at mlx-community. For the size I was looking at the wrong model (TTS not transcribe-diarize), thanks for the corrections.

Interesting! And what would you say are MTD top competitors?

I'm only dealing with Japanese audio so for me it's Anime-Whisper, a Japanese-specific fine-tuning of Qwen3 ASR, and Apple SpeechTranscriber.