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According to Mosyle’s analysis, ModStealer is being delivered to victims through malicious job recruiter ads targeting developers. It uses a heavily obfuscated JavaScript file written with NodeJS that remains completely undetectable by signature-based defenses. And this one isn’t just targeting Mac users either; Windows and Linux environments are also at risk.


New in v3

- Automatic punctuation and capitalization

- Accurate word-level and segment-level timestamps

- Long audio transcription, supporting audio up to 24 minutes long with full attention (on A100 80GB) or up to 3 hours with local attention.

- Released under a permissive CC BY 4.0 license

- Now supports 25 Languages:

Bulgarian (bg), Croatian (hr), Czech (cs), Danish (da), Dutch (nl), English (en), Estonian (et), Finnish (fi), French (fr), German (de), Greek (el), Hungarian (hu), Italian (it), Latvian (lv), Lithuanian (lt), Maltese (mt), Polish (pl), Portuguese (pt), Romanian (ro), Slovak (sk), Slovenian (sl), Spanish (es), Swedish (sv), Russian (ru), Ukrainian (uk)


If this is as fast as the English-only version of Parakeet, then this is gonna displace Whisper entirely!


For (English only) speech-to-text, NVIDIA's Parakeet-V2 is significantly faster than Whisper and I found it to be more accurate.

https://huggingface.co/nvidia/parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v2

For Apple Silicon (MLX) https://huggingface.co/senstella/parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v2-mlx


Compared to all Whister models? Or the faster ones? And which version of Whisper? All for a faster, more accurate model, but need a bit more.


All of them, in my experience.


Fair, looking at the ASR leaderboards it is truly better - https://huggingface.co/spaces/hf-audio/open_asr_leaderboard and NVIDIA's Canary might be even better? Will try these out. Appreciate bringing these to my attention!


I think they use rotating IP/Proxy services


Might be, but I think google would still be able to chase them down.


Yep, this happened to me & got IP banned for a day.



The whistleblower and his lawyer gave interviews on CNN & MSNBC:

CNN: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsqgXfrSksI




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