parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v2
mlx-community/parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v2
A popular open speech-to-text model, with 1.5M downloads a month. gigarouter benchmarks and hosts it as an OpenAI-compatible API.
about this model
Model Description
Parakeet TDT 0.6B v2 is a 0.6 billion parameter automatic speech recognition (ASR) model originally developed by NVIDIA and converted to the MLX format. It is designed for efficient inference on Apple Silicon hardware and is hosted on gigarouter as a managed, OpenAI‑compatible API endpoint.
This model is best suited for transcription tasks where a lightweight, fast‑running ASR system is required. No benchmark numbers are provided in the model card; refer to the original NVIDIA model card for additional performance details.
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