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Grok Voice Transcribe 2.0

23 pointsby 6h agox.ai
7 comments
6h agoHN ↗

No weights, sadly. Bit of a nothingburger release.

5h agoHN ↗

Word-level timestamps. Each word has precise start/end times and confidence scores.

Neat. This is missing from many models.

5h agoHN ↗

Mistral STT offers it, which is an open model.

5h agoHN ↗

I don't understand how these benchmarks get things so wrong. Nova-3 is by far the best model on the market in WER. Azure's STT is atrocious. And yet every benchmark rates Azure's STT higher than Nova-3's.

5h agoHN ↗

Mai 2 transcribe is giving me better results than nova

5h agoHN ↗

$0.10/hour is a good price vs $0.30/hour for Gemini Transcribe 3.5.