Underdog released Bark 3.0, and it's only a 163MB download. Runs locally w/Pytorch+CUDA or MLX
On their Open ASR Leaderboard evaluation, Bark wins
๐ถ Bark 3.0 โ 4.94% WER โ 163MB
๐ข NVIDIA Parakeet โ 4.94% โ 2.51GB
๐ Whisper large-v3 โ 6.04% โ 9.26GB
So Bark matches Parakeet's average accuracy while being ๐ ~15ร smaller
And beats Whisper while being ๐ ~57ร smaller
On recorded meetings check out these stats
Bark โ 7.82% WER
Parakeet โ 9.42%
Whisper large-v3 โ 13.63%
And this isn't CUDA-server-only.
๐ fully local
๐ฑ phone-class
๐ MLX + Core ML
๐ง Apple GPU / ANE
๐ช CPU + CUDA paths
๐ CC-BY-4.0
I've checked and no GGUF. It uses its own compressed Bark format plus MLX/Core ML/Transformers runtimes.
Bark 3.0 Plus is only 180MB and improves average WER to 4.76%.
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