Earlybird
29M-param speech-to-text that outputs words before they end
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Earlybird is a 29M-parameter, 17 MB on-device speech-to-text model that predicts each word correctly about 90 ms before the speaker finishes it, with a confidence on every word. Built for voice agents that need to act sooner. Open weights and code.
PH · launched Nov 11, 2026 · 87 upvotes (top 1%) · 0 views
Niche: speech and voice ai models · 143 launches, 7 in the last 7 days ▼ -30% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Model & infra
- Developer
- AI-native
- Commercial product
- Open Source
- Developer Tools
- Artificial Intelligence
- GitHub
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Could you build this?
No The product is a custom-trained speech-to-text model that predicts words before they are spoken, which requires ML research, training data, and speech-recognition expertise.
What it would actually take: A real version requires a streaming acoustic model architecture (such as a causal or lookahead-limited transformer or conformer), large labeled speech corpora, training infrastructure with GPUs, and careful evaluation of latency and per-word confidence calibration. Deploying it on-device also needs model compression and optimization for mobile hardware.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 250 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #11 of 251 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 365 days after the earliest competitor.
- earlybird · github · 2026-11-09 · 43 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- ElevenLabs Realtime · ph · 2026-10-23 · 185 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Lightning V3 · ph · 2026-04-02 · 321 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Grok Voice 3.0 · ph · 2026-10-15 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Fish Audio Realtime STT · ph · 2026-10-31 · 4 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- ema-lightning · github · 2026-10-05 · 154 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- rapido-tts · github · 2026-10-07 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Parrot Speech-to-text API · ph · 2026-05-26 · 194 upvotes · similarity 0.42
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