Following the Steam release, Project Ex Libris' adventure game "Oblivion Maiden" is now available for free on Itchio in English, Japanese, Korean, and Chinese. The game features VTuber Lulunya Apathia. Story: One day, you play a video. The moment it begins, your consciousness is drawn into an unfamiliar academy. The place where you awaken is St. Dorothia Academy, a school of magic hidden deep within a forest. As you explore the academy, you encounter a mysterious girl named Lulunya Apathia. She spends her days broadcasting toward the vast digital sea from a quiet corner of the academy. With her guidance, you will journey through a world where the boundary between reality and dreams has begun to blur. By touching the hearts of the students, you will uncover the truth behind a series of strange phenomena. Itchio: Steam: #OblivionMaiden# #オブリヴィオンメイデン#

A new speech-to-text model of only 1.06MB can transcribe audio ~436× faster than real time on ONE CPU thread! No GPU. AuroraASR-1M is a super super small local speech-recognition model with these stats 🧠 949K parameters 💾 FP32 → 3.81MB 💾 FP16 → 1.91MB 💾 INT8 → 1.06MB 🔓 Apache 2.0 🖥️ CPU or GPU The developer measured the full end-to-end pipeline — feature extraction + speech recognition + CTC decoding at ... 🖥️ 1 CPU thread → ~436× real time 🔥 RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell → ~1,362× real time 🎯So 10 minutes of audio could be processed in about 1.4 seconds at the reported single-thread CPU rate. So to underscore, this isn't using an external language model! It's a tiny Conformer-CTC model trained on LibriSpeech and can run through Transformers locally. There's a tradeoff, accuracy AuroraASR-1M test-clean WER → 11.43% Whisper Tiny English → 5.6% So Whisper Tiny is substantially more accurate. Aurora is also 🇺🇸 English only 🔡 lowercase output ❌ no punctuation A 1MB model can now turn speech into text locally at hundreds of times real time on a single CPU core. That makes completely offline transcription, voice commands and embedded voice features almost absurdly cheap. 🔗 Hugging Face model in ALT.

Audio8 ASR Infinite keeps transcribing around the clock with bounded memory and latency. 🤖 🎙️ A rolling KV Cache enables unlimited-length Chinese and English transcription without accumulated drift. 🏆 At 480 ms delay, it reaches 1.75 CER on AISHELL-1, 2.89 on AISHELL-4, and 3.04/6.81 WER on LibriSpeech test-clean/test-other. ⚡ Select an 80, 120, or 160 ms audio clock and tune delay from 240 to 560 ms. Semantic VAD distinguishes pauses from real turn endings. 📜 Preview release under Apache 2.0, with continuous deployment through an adapted vLLM stack.

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