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Hugging Face brings open ASR and decision models to Swift
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- →Developers can replace Apple's default speech engine with open-source alternatives like Parakeet or Qwen3-ASR using minimal code changes.
- →The package adds speaker diarization to Apple platforms, a feature currently absent from the native Speech framework.
- →It standardizes local inference for decision models in Swift, moving beyond text generation to structured probabilistic outputs.
Hugging Face has released AnySpeechRecognizer and AnyDecisionModel, Swift packages designed to integrate open-source speech and classification models into Apple platforms. The speech package wraps NVIDIA’s Parakeet and Alibaba’s Qwen3-ASR within Apple’s SpeechAnalyzer API, allowing developers to switch engines by changing a single import statement. It also includes speaker diarization using NVIDIA’s Sortformer model, extending functionality beyond Apple’s native capabilities. These tools run locally on Core ML, enabling offline transcription and decision-making for iOS and macOS applications.
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- 1Hugging Face and Cerebras Launch Real-Time Voice AI
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- 3Nvidia acquires Hugging Face for $12.9 billion
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Hugging Face brings open ASR and decision models to Swift (This article)↳ Hugging Face introduces AnySpeechRecognizer for Swift, wrapping Parakeet and Qwen3-ASR with speaker diarization via Sortformer.
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