Speech-to-text

Parakeet TDT 0.6B v3 requirements, license & speed

By NVIDIA · released 2025-08-04 · 600M parameters

Commercial useYes
Min memoryAt least 2 GB RAM to load
Runs on CPUUnknown
StreamingYes

Key facts

License
cc-by-4.0 source
Commercial use
Yes source
CC-BY-4.0 (attribution); card: ready for commercial/non-commercial use
Parameters
600M source
This model has 600 million model parameters
Minimum memory
At least 2 GB RAM to load source
Runs on CPU
Unknown
Streaming
Yes source
Chunked streaming via NeMo script
Voice cloning
n/a (speech-to-text)
Languages
en, es, fr, de, bg, hr, cs, da, nl, et, fi, el, hu, it, lv, lt, mt, pl, pt, ro, sk, sl, sv, ru, uk source
Released
2025-08-04 source
Hugging Face repo creation date (proxy for release date)
Gated on HF
No

Measured speed & memory

Benchmark pending. We haven't measured Parakeet TDT 0.6B v3 yet. Planned targets: CPU (8 vCPU), Apple Silicon Mac, RTX-class consumer GPU and a rented cloud GPU. Get notified.

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