Hugging Face
Run on your own infrastructure.
Download the weights, adapt the model and build on it. You choose the hardware and where your audio is processed.
Introducing Klang Pianissimo
Pianissimo.
Swedish speech-to-text at 3,600× realtime.
Klang Pianissimo is an open speech-to-text model for Swedish, fine-tuned from NVIDIA’s Parakeet v3. It achieves a 4.5% word error rate on Common Voice and transcribes an hour of audio in one second.
Try Pianissimo
Try transcribing Selma Lagerlöf, or try the model on your own audio.
Connecting to the model…
Silvergruvan
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Or try your own audio
Drop a file onto the player. Up to 90 minutes. Audio is sent to Klang for transcription.
Small model.
Big difference.
Pianissimo achieves word error rates comparable to KB-Whisper large, at 64 times the speed.
Speed and accuracy in one picture
Faster to the right. Fewer errors toward the top.
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60 hours of audio.
In one minute.
1 second
to transcribe an hour of audio
One tile = one hour of audio
Get Pianissimo.
Pianissimo is an open model, built for sovereignty. Run it on your own infrastructure or use it through our partner Berget AI. You choose where your audio is processed.
You choose where the model runs.
European AI needs models that others can build on. Open weights let you run Pianissimo locally, choose a European provider and switch as your needs change.
Built with Pianissimo.
Open source
OSTT
Dictate with a keyboard shortcut and use the text in your apps or terminal. OSTT uses Pianissimo through Berget AI.
Explore OSTTOpen source
Mindtalk
Hold a key, speak and get the text in any app on your Mac. Mindtalk uses Pianissimo for Swedish and everything runs locally.
Explore MindtalkMac app
Aloud
Dictate in Swedish right on your Mac, without the cloud. Aloud lets you choose Pianissimo as its speech recognition model.
Explore AloudOpen source
Pianissimo Meet
Transcribe Teams and Zoom meetings in real time, locally on Windows. Pianissimo Meet is built on Pianissimo and sends no audio to the cloud.
Explore Pianissimo MeetPrototype
Real-time transcription
Transcribes Swedish conversations as they happen and keeps track of who says what. The prototype uses Pianissimo through Berget AI.
Read the articleiPhone app
SnickSnack
Transcribe calls, meetings and interviews in Swedish right on your iPhone and get a summary. SnickSnack uses Pianissimo and everything stays on your phone.
Explore SnickSnackWhat are you building?
We’d love to see your project and share more ways to use Pianissimo.
AI for conversations that matter.
Klang makes your conversations searchable and usable - with transcriptions, summaries, and insights. Built in Europe, with trust at its core.