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Parakeet

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Transcription macOS
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Parakeet settings

About

Parakeet uses NVIDIA’s Parakeet TDT model for extremely fast on-device speech recognition on Apple Silicon. The compact 0.6B parameter model delivers strong accuracy across 25 European languages with word-level timestamps, all without requiring a cloud connection.

Features

  • NVIDIA Parakeet TDT - extremely fast on Apple Silicon
  • 25 European languages supported
  • Word-level timestamps
  • No API key or cloud account needed
  • Compact model size (~600 MB)
  • Optional local vocabulary boosting from your TypeWhisper dictionary

Transcription Models

ModelIDSize
Parakeet TDT v3 0.6Bparakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3~600 MB

Configuration

No API key required. Parakeet runs entirely on-device.

If vocabulary boosting is enabled, Parakeet uses your custom TypeWhisper dictionary terms locally during transcription. Dictionary corrections are still applied automatically after transcription, so the dictionary helps both during and after the transcription step.

Setup

  1. Open TypeWhisper Settings > Plugins
  2. Find the Parakeet plugin and enable it
  3. The model will be downloaded on first use
  4. Select Parakeet as your transcription engine in Settings or in a profile

Manual copy workaround

If Parakeet is already working on one Mac, you can also copy the local model files over as a workaround. This is separate from plugin installation.

  1. Quit TypeWhisper on both Macs.
  2. On the Mac where Parakeet already works, copy only the model folders you actually use:
    • ~/Library/Application Support/FluidAudio/Models/parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3-coreml/
    • ~/Library/Application Support/FluidAudio/Models/parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v2-coreml/ if you still use the older v2 model
    • ~/Library/Application Support/FluidAudio/Models/parakeet-ctc-110m-coreml/ if you use vocabulary boosting
  3. On the target Mac, install the same or a newer TypeWhisper version, launch it once, then quit it again.
  4. Copy those folders into the exact same paths on the target Mac under ~/Library/Application Support/FluidAudio/Models/.
  5. Reopen TypeWhisper and check whether the model is detected and can be loaded.

Install from file is for plugin bundles. It does not import Parakeet model folders for you.

This is a workaround, not the polished primary flow. If the target Mac blocks access to ~/Library/Application Support or CoreML cache usage, the copied model can still fail to load.