AnalysisOpinion / analysisSpeech & Audio · Large Language Models1 source · Oct 18, 2026

AuroraASR-1M Releases!

It's an extremely lightweight speech recognition model.

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Key points

  • 949K parameters using a weight-shared Conformer-CTC architecture
  • Just 1.06 MB for INT8 weights
  • Around 436× real-time on a single CPU thread
  • 11.43% WER on LibriSpeech test-clean, using greedy decoding with no external language model

Sources (1)

  • [1]AuroraASR-1M Releases!
    r/LocalLLaMA (top, daily) · Oct 18, 12:48 PM
    It's an extremely lightweight speech recognition model.
    949K parameters using a weight-shared Conformer-CTC architecture

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