Grok 4.5 Auto-Optimizes Speech-to-Text
Nilofer_tweets · x · 2026-07-15
Someone ran an automated research loop using Grok 4.5 to make Parakeet TDT 0.6B v3 run faster on CPUs.
The results:
- Identified that the encoder takes up about 98% of the runtime, so experiments focused there.
- Switching the encoder from the standard Hub dynamic INT8 path to static quant yielded significant performance gains.
- On an AMD EPYC machine with 8 vCPUs, throughput increased from roughly 26x real-time to 54x real-time, a 2.1x speedup.
- On Mac, long audio scenarios also saw a 1.4x speedup.
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