mudler/parakeet.cpp

Fast and portable Parakeet implementation in C++ with ggml

#Speech to text

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MIT License

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Sep 7 – Nov 6, 2026

Stars +102 in 61 days

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Forks +26 in 61 days

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Merged PRs 36 in 61 days

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Fri, Nov 6, 2026	+2	+0	0
Total	+102	+26	36

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Oct 41 post
- @vikhyatk https://t.co/dVUSG7gyjx
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Oct 31 post
- Your local agent can now hear what was said, who said it, and what happened around them. parakeet.cpp transcribes audio, separates speakers, detects 527 sound classes, and now enrolls and remembers…
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2 months earlier
Jul 281 post
- I did a big release 0.4.0: - Local Whisper/Parakeet models running very fast on Mac (subsecond for ~30s audio) - Recording overlay window - Better installation UX (single and update scripts) P.S: I…
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Jul 131 post
- Parakeet.cpp running on an Rpi5 faster than realtime. I finally got around benchmarking it with a fan and correct power supply.
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1 month earlier
Jun 61 post
- NVIDIA just dropped Nemotron-3.5-ASR: one 0.6B model, 40+ languages, streaming. parakeet.cpp already runs it. On a plain CPU, 2.5x faster than @NVIDIAAI 's Nemo runtime, output byte-for-byte…
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Jun 41 post
- An M5 Max with 40 GPU cores just beat an M3 Ultra with 80 on parakeet.cpp. 🔥 Every model. ~1.7× faster on average, up to ~2×. Half the cores. Repo: by super @mudler_it and it's already part of his…
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Jun 32 posts
- parakeet.cpp now does batched transcription. Decode N clips in one pass and a single GB10 runs up to 12x faster at batch 16. Peak ~1,260 clips/s. CPU sees 3-5x. Same model, bit-for-bit identical…
  Read full on X, posted by @mudler_it
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- 用 C++ + ggml 重写 NVIDIA Parakeet ASR 的推理路径,不依赖 Python。 parakeet.cpp 把 NVIDIA NeMo Parakeet 系列 ASR 用 C++17 移植到 ggml,CPU 和 GPU 都能跑,推理时彻底不依赖 Python。
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May 312 posts
- what a wonderful project: parakeet.cpp GGML based parakeet inference pipeline that's 2x faster than my ONNX parakeet pipeline on Apple Silicon! (Needed a few local patches to get it going)
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- saving you going through a painfully long engagement optimized thread, here's the GitHub:
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