⚙️ Faulkton SD is along US 212, west of Watertown.
Today's task: finding a speech-to-text model that supports Lithuanian.
The choices seem to be OpenAI.
ElevenLabs supports: English (USA, UK, Australia, Canada), Japanese, Chinese, German, Hindi, French (France, Canada), Korean, Portuguese (Brazil, Portugal), Italian, Spanish (Spain, Mexico), Indonesian, Dutch, Turkish, Filipino, Polish, Swedish, Bulgarian, Romanian, Arabic (Saudi Arabia, UAE), Czech, Greek, Finnish, Croatian, Malay, Slovak, Danish, Tamil, Ukrainian & Russian.
Google Gemini supports: Arabic (Egyptian), German (Germany), English (US), Spanish (US), French (France), Hindi (India), Indonesian (Indonesia), Italian (Italy), Japanese (Japan), Korean (Korea), Portuguese (Brazil), Russian (Russia), Dutch (Netherlands), Polish (Poland), Thai (Thailand), Turkish (Turkey), Vietnamese (Vietnam), Romanian (Romania), Ukrainian (Ukraine), Bengali (Bangladesh), English (India), Marathi (India), Tamil (India), Telugu (India)
PlayAI ⚙️ https://play.ht seems to support Lithuanian.
Also, Coqui AI ⚙️ an open-source project; https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS claims to support Lithuanian.
The main problem with OpenAI is that, sometimes, the words are truncated.
This has been most common with pirštinės in testing; the leading P sound is missing.