Parakeet is insanely fast and much more accurate, and it doesn't really matter that Whisper requires hacks to work live when those hacks have existed for years and work great. (The Hello Transcribe app on iOS is a great example of how well Whisper can work with live streaming on an iPhone. The smaller models are extremely fast, even with the "hacks".)

Parakeet TDT's architecture is actually a really cool way to boost both the speed and efficiency of real time STT compared to traditional approaches.