TranscribePsy: on-device speech recognition in 25 European languages
TranscribePsy is a 254M-parameter speech recognition model that turns speech into text on a phone or a laptop, in 25 European languages on a laptop and 8 on a phone.
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TranslatePsy-AfriSLM: translation for 19 African languages, running on the phone people already own
Open-source AI moved fast on the languages that already filled the internet, and left much of the world out of the revolution it started. TranslatePsy-AfriSLM covers 19 African languages, runs on an ordinary phone with no connection, and our smallest model matches or beats systems up to 152 times its size.
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VisionPsy-Nano: state-of-the-art vision AI in its weight class, small enough to run on your phone
Tether AI Research is releasing VisionPsy-Nano, a family of ~460M-parameter vision-language models built to run on the device in your pocket. It leads its weight class on 16 of 17 benchmarks, beats models up to 2.3x its size on ScienceQA, instruction following and hallucination robustness, and the Flash variant reaches the first token in 0.3s on an iPhone 15. Open weights, Apache 2.0.
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Nothing is more private than a thought: how QVAC runs a brain-to-text model fully on-device
For people who have lost their voice to ALS, the words are still there. The connection to the world is what breaks, not the mind. BrainWhisperer, from Tether Evo, decodes attempted speech from the brain into text, and QVAC runs it fully on-device: more than 90% of words correct on real recordings, in under 2 GB, nothing leaving the machine. An early proof of concept, not a product.
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