Four Small Models, One Android Phone: Does It Actually Work?

Daniel has been replacing typing with voice for two years, and moving from Whisper to Parakeet V2 on Android was a massive step up. But when your dictation pipeline chains a voice activity detector, an ASR model, and one or more cleanup models, how do you know it's actually working — or is the phone just unusually idle? This episode walks the full chain stage by stage: why ASR models are deliberately partial products, why paragraphing is the great unloved task that even punctuation models skip, and why silence timeouts actively mislead turn detection. Along the way: Parakeet V2 beating V3, quantization tolerance that varies wildly by model, and what happens when a benchmark's six-times-real-time headroom shrinks to almost nothing on weaker hardware. Episode #414315 — open it directly at myweirdprompts.com/414315