Whistle
A speech-to-text model for mobiles, wearables, robots, smart home, automotive and microcontrollers.
Whistle launched on 30 September 2026. It ranked #69 on Daily Launch on 15 October 2026 with a Launch Score of 27, from trending score 212 on Hugging Face. It was new in the ranking that day.
What is Whistle?
A speech-to-text model for mobiles, wearables, robots, smart home, automotive and microcontrollers. The whole model is a single 16.9 MB file, and it runs on the same CPU engine as Needle, from the same container and the same quantisation, with no dependencies and no GPU.
From its model card on Hugging Face
Whistle is a model by Cactus-Compute on Hugging Face. It is released under the Apache 2.0 license.
How to get Whistle
pip install cactus-needleFrom its model card on Hugging Face
More steps and the source are in its model card on Hugging Face.
Launch timeline
Launch Score, last 7 days
Ranked on one day so far: 27 of 100 on 15 October.