AI NEWS.ccVibeVoice-ASR-BitNet
**VibeVoice-ASR-BitNet** is a compressed variant of VibeVoice-ASR optimized for **real-time inference on edge CPUs** — no GPU required. Through heterogeneous quantization, the model is compressed from 4.62 GB to **1.58 GB** while achieving **1.6–2.3× faster** inference than Whisper.cpp with real-time capability (RTF ➡️ **Report:** VibeVoice-ASR-BitNet Technical Report ➡️ **Base Model:** microsoft/VibeVoice-ASR This project was conducted by members of Microsoft Research. If you have suggestions, questions, or observe unexpected behavior, please contact us at VibeVoice@microsoft.com.
**VibeVoice-ASR-BitNet** is a compressed variant of VibeVoice-ASR optimized for **real-time inference on edge CPUs** — no GPU required. Through heterogeneous quantization, the model is compressed from 4.62 GB to **1.58 GB** while achieving **1.6–2.3× faster** inference than Whisper.cpp with real-time capability (RTF ➡️ **Report:** VibeVoice-ASR-BitNet Technical Report ➡️ **Base Model:** microsoft/VibeVoice-ASR This project was conducted by members of Microsoft Research. If you have suggestions, questions, or observe unexpected behavior, please contact us at VibeVoice@microsoft.com.