Ternary-compressed Parakeet speech model shrinks 1.2GB to 178MB, runs 113x realtime on CPU
TheZachMueller · x · 2026-09-22
vikhyatk released Parakeet Redux, a ternary speech-to-text model created by compressing NVIDIA's Parakeet from 1.2GB down to 178MB.
- Runs at 113x realtime on CPU
- Beats the base model on the 25-language FLEURS benchmark
- English WER stays within 0.3 of the original
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