A Coding Guide to Cactus Whistle: Does a 16.9 MB Speech Model Hold Up Against Whisper Base? Word Error Rate, Speed, Streaming, Timestamps, Keywords, and Speech-to-Tool Calls on a CPU

A coding guide benchmarks Cactus Compute's 16.9 MB speech model against Whisper Base, evaluating word error rates, CPU speed, streaming latency, and speech-to-tool integration.