Parakeet is the name of a speech to text model from Nvidia. Roughly comparable to whisper from openAI.
It's the model doing the work inside the wrapper that an app provides.
It's the model doing the work inside the wrapper that an app provides.
https://huggingface.co/nvidia/parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v2
https://huggingface.co/nvidia/parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3
It's almost instant on my new M5 Max w/ 36GB of memory, but I used both with Handy on my previous 2019 Intel Mac w/ 16GB memory and was completely surprised at just how fast it was for being on-device! Not instant, but only a couple seconds.
Transcription this good used to cost A LOT, now it rounds down to free.