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parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v2
sonic-speech/parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v2
parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v2 is a automatic speech recognition model from sonic-speech. Use it when you need speech turned into text. It is set up for mlx. The card lists the license as cc-by-4.0.
NVIDIA Parakeet-TDT 0.6B V2 converted to MLX SafeTensors format for Apple Silicon inference. This is the reference BF16 checkpoint — see quantized variants for reduced memory:
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At a glance
- Task
- Automatic Speech Recognition
- Library
- mlx
- License
- cc-by-4.0
- Access
- Public
- Created
- Jan 8, 2026
- Updated
- Mar 8, 2026
- SHA
- e46d9061
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Model card
From the Hugging Face model README
Parakeet TDT 0.6B V2 (MLX, BF16)
NVIDIA Parakeet-TDT 0.6B V2 converted to MLX SafeTensors format for Apple Silicon inference. This is the reference BF16 checkpoint — see quantized variants for reduced memory:
sonic-speech/parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v2-int8— Encoder INT8 / Decoder BF16 (recommended)
Performance (M3 Max, 64GB)
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| WER (LibriSpeech test-clean) | 1.67% |
| RTFx | 73x realtime |
| Peak memory | ~3GB |
| Parameters | 627M |
| Format | BF16 SafeTensors |
Usage
from parakeet import from_pretrained
model = from_pretrained("sonic-speech/parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v2")
result = model.transcribe("audio.wav")
print(result.text)
Origin
Weights converted from nvidia/parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v2
via the mlx-community conversion pipeline.
Hosted by Sonic Speech for the Sonic voice AI project.
License
CC-BY-4.0 (following NVIDIA's original license)
- Task
- Automatic Speech Recognition
- Library
- mlx
- License
- cc-by-4.0
- Languages
- en
- Created
- Jan 8, 2026
- Updated
- Mar 8, 2026