parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v2

by mlx-community

Task
Speech recognition
Category
Audio
License
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
Yes, with conditions
Creative Commons license: commercial use is allowed with attribution.
Size
About 600 million parameters
Memory to load
~1 GB (estimate)
Format
MLX
Runs on
CPU
Access
Open download
Downloads (last 30 days)
702.7K
Likes
47
Last updated
May 10, 2025

How to run it

This is an MLX build for Apple silicon Macs; run it with Apple's MLX framework (mlx-lm for language models).

Plan for roughly 1 GB of memory to load it (our estimate from its size and format).

The model card on Hugging Face has the exact usage code.

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