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parakeet tdt 0.6B
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RANKED #12 OF 26 AUDIO · OVERALL #317 OF 494 RANKED · VIBE SCORE 5.8 · 83 VOICES ·
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parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v2 on Hugging Face (automatic speech recognition). 2,195,476 downloads. Open weights for local or hosted use.
HAPPY9.8
23 mentions
SAD5.2
4 mentions
VIBE TRAJECTORY
26 weeks · 109 voices in this window
HONEYMOON FADING
Early praise is cooling off in recent weeks.
HOW TO USE IT
Open weights. You can use a hosted service, or download it and run it yourself, free.
RUN IT ON YOUR OWN MACHINE
Open weights: download parakeet tdt 0.6B once and it's yours. No subscription, no rate limits, works offline.
600M parameters, full precision is about 2.4 GB, INT8 / quantized files are about 650 MB to 1.2 GB
- BARE MINIMUM
Intel N100 Mini PC
8 GB RAM
~$130 NEWINT8 quantized via sherpa-onnx on CPU, comfortable batch-1 speech recognition
- SWEET SPOT
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GB desktop
12 GB VRAM
~$260 USEDFP16 or INT8 via NVIDIA NeMo / ONNX GPU runtime with high batch throughput
- FULL POWER
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 12GB desktop
12 GB VRAM
~$520 NEWFP32 / FP16 full precision, max chunk size (24-minute audio single pass) at ultra-high speed
No live install guides found yet. The hardware picks above still stand.
RUNS INNVIDIA NEMOSHERPA-ONNXONNX RUNTIMECHIRP
WILL MY BOX RUN PARAKEET TDT 0.6B?
The three cards above are researched picks. Search the machine you actually have — we only say yes if it should reply at a usable speed, not just load the weights and crawl.
HARDWARE PICKS & PRICES ARE RESEARCHED FROM THE LIVE WEB AND REFRESHED AUTOMATICALLY. TREAT THEM AS BALLPARK, NOT GOSPEL.
WHAT CAN YOU ACTUALLY DO WITH IT?
Everyday jobs on each of those rigs: how long parakeet tdt 0.6B takes, and how good the crowd says it is at that kind of work.
| THE JOB | BARE MINIMUMIntel N100 Mini PC | SWEET SPOTNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GB desktop | FULL POWERNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 12GB desktop |
|---|---|---|---|
| Narrate a scripta minute of spoken audio | ~12 S★★★★★ | UNDER A SECOND★★★★★ | UNDER A SECOND★★★★★ |
| Transcribe a recordinga ten minute recording turned into text | ~2 MIN★★★★★ | ~7 S★★★★★ | ~3 S★★★★★ |
STARS ARE THE COMMUNITY SCORE FOR THAT KIND OF WORK, DOCKED FOR HOW SQUASHED THE WEIGHTS GET AT EACH TIER. TIMES ARE COMPUTED FROM RESEARCHED SPEEDS. BALLPARK, NOT GOSPEL.
WHAT THE INTERNET SAYS
People generally like parakeet tdt 0.6B, with some gripes. Biggest praise: getting facts right.
82 POSTS · 1 COMMENTS · GITHUB · X · REDDIT
PEOPLE LOVE
- Usually gives correct answers (2 mentions)
PEOPLE COMPLAIN ABOUT MORE
- Sometimes makes things up (1 mentions)
TOPIC BY TOPIC
- Getting facts rightMOSTLY POSITIVE
2 thumbs up · 1 thumbs down
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- REDDIT · 2025-05-23 · 40 UPVOTES🎙️ Offline Speech-to-Text with NVIDIA Parakeet-TDT 0.6B v2
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- REDDIT · 2026-09-26 · 25 UPVOTESBuilt a fully local Mac app on Ollama (dictation, meeting notes, RAG): numbers and lessons from Gemma 4 e2b vs 26b, open source
Built a fully local Mac app on Ollama (dictation, meeting notes, RAG): numbers and lessons from Gemma 4 e2b vs 26b, open source
- REDDIT · 2026-06-10 · 7 UPVOTESI built a CPU-only local voice stack for AI agents (Claude Code, OpenCode, Codex) - Silero VAD + Parakeet STT + Supertonic TTS, one-command…
I built a CPU-only local voice stack for AI agents (Claude Code, OpenCode, Codex) - Silero VAD + Parakeet STT + Supertonic TTS, one-command install, macOS/Linux/Windows
- GITHUB · 2026-10-01 · 1 UPVOTESfeat: choose Parakeet v3 or Whisper for local recognition
feat: choose Parakeet v3 or Whisper for local recognition
- REDDIT · 2026-07-15 · 1 UPVOTESI had Grok 4.5 run an autoresearch optimization ladder on Parakeet CPU ASR. Result: Upto 2.1x faster STT
I had Grok 4.5 run an autoresearch optimization ladder on Parakeet CPU ASR. Result: Upto 2.1x faster STT
- GITHUB · 2026-10-20 · 0 UPVOTESfeat: téléchargement automatique de Parakeet v3 et Whisper Large v3 Turbo
feat: téléchargement automatique de Parakeet v3 et Whisper Large v3 Turbo
- GITHUB · 2026-10-22 · 0 UPVOTESWhispering: GitHub Releases detection and one-click dmg
Whispering: GitHub Releases detection and one-click dmg
- GITHUB · 2026-09-22 · 0 UPVOTESwhisper: Parakeet cannot load from a symlinked HF cache (3.8.1-2)
whisper: Parakeet cannot load from a symlinked HF cache (3.8.1-2)
- GITHUB · 2026-10-09 · 0 UPVOTESReplace Whisper with Parakeet and show live text while you speak
Replace Whisper with Parakeet and show live text while you speak
- GITHUB · 2026-10-21 · 0 UPVOTESfix(desktop-gpui): caption non-European languages with Whisper instead of Parakeet
fix(desktop-gpui): caption non-European languages with Whisper instead of Parakeet