cstr/moonshine-tiny-de-fidoriel-GGUF

Moonshine Tiny (German, fidoriel) -- GGUF

GGUF conversions and quantisations of fidoriel/moonshine-tiny-de for use with CrispStrobe/CrispASR.

Available variants

File	Quant	Size	Notes
moonshine-tiny-de-fidoriel-f16.gguf	F16	52 MB	Half precision
moonshine-tiny-de-fidoriel-q4_k.gguf	Q4_K	17 MB	Best size/quality tradeoff

Model details

• Architecture: Conv1d stem + 6L transformer encoder + 6L transformer decoder (288d, 8 heads, partial RoPE, SiLU/GELU)
• Parameters: 27M
• Languages: German (fine-tuned from English moonshine-tiny)
• WER: 11.4% on Common Voice 22 German test set
• CER: 4.2%
• Output: Proper casing and punctuation
• License: CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0 (inherited from upstream)
• Source: fidoriel/moonshine-tiny-de

Usage with CrispASR

# Explicit model path
./build/bin/crispasr --backend moonshine -m moonshine-tiny-de-fidoriel-q4_k.gguf -f audio.wav

# Or via backend name (auto-download)
./build/bin/crispasr --backend moonshine-tiny-de -m auto -f audio.wav

Notes

• Moonshine models run on CPU only (GPU not needed for these small models)
• Tokenizer (tokenizer.bin) must be in the same directory as the model file
• Smaller/faster alternative to moonshine-base-de (17 MB vs 39 MB)