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Jordan Darefsky
Personal blog · jordandarefsky.com/blogaiprogramming
Jordan Darefsky writes blank, a personal blog at jordandarefsky.com about ai and programming. Since 2025, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-11-20, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Jordan Darefsky's Parakeet post, about a model fine-tuned from Whisper. In a Dia TTS thread, commenters cite it for the model architecture and licensing points.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- /blog/2024/parakeet/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-04-22
What Hacker News says?
Well, this for one, about Parakeet: > We plan to release our fine-tuned whisper models and possibly the generative model (and/or future improved versions). The generative model would have to be released under a non-commercial license due to our datasets. https://jordandarefsky.com/blog/2024/parakeet/
Comment linking /blog/2024/parakeet/
on “Show HN: Dia, an open-weights TTS model for generating realistic dialogue”It’s not just you. The speedup is an artefact of the CFG (Classifier-Free Guidance) the model uses. The other problem is the speedup isn’t constant—it actually accelerates as the generation progresses. The Parakeet paper [1] (which OP lifted their model architecture almost directly from [2]) gives a fairly robust treatment to the matter: > When we apply CFG to Parakeet sampling, quality is significantly improved. Ho…
Comment linking /blog/2024/parakeet/
on “Show HN: Dia, an open-weights TTS model for generating realistic dialogue”I have a sneaking suspicion it's because they lifted the model architecture almost directly from Parakeet: https://jordandarefsky.com/blog/2024/parakeet/ Parakeet references WhisperD which is at https://huggingface.co/jordand/whisper-d-v1a and doesn't include a full list of non-speech events that it's been trained with, except "(coughs)" and "(laughs)". Not saying the authors didn't do anything interesting here. The…
Comment linking /blog/2024/parakeet/
on “Show HN: Dia, an open-weights TTS model for generating realistic dialogue”