Japanese support plan?
#5
by sttt - opened
Excellent transcription model. Please support Japanese language so that I can switch from Whisper to this model.
Adding Japanese support would allow us to make subtitles for anime, movies, games and tv shows. Massively Bridging the gap for a lot of readily available media.
parakeet-tdt_ctc-0.6b-ja is only an ASR (automatic speech recognition) model — it takes Japanese audio → Japanese text.
no translation. yet. and worse yet no timestamps
Updates?
we need this
I would be so happy if we got a model that could do Japanese with timestamps.
Most open-source options like Whisper, VibeVoice-ASR and Qwen3-ASR have issues haven't pushed subtitle generation forward such as
- Not great accuracy
- Repetition
- Long random sections where speech isn't transcribed
- Off timings
- Timings being essentially "paragraph level" not sentence level (vibevoice I'm looking at you)