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parakeet-mlx

Simon Willison…
2025-11-15 3 min read

<p><strong><a href="https://github.com/senstella/parakeet-mlx">parakeet-mlx</a></strong></p> Neat MLX project by Senstella bringing NVIDIA's <a href="https://huggingface.co/nvidia/parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v2...

parakeet-mlx

Neat MLX project by Senstella bringing NVIDIA's Parakeet ASR (Automatic Speech Recognition, like Whisper) model to to Apple's MLX framework.

It's packaged as a Python CLI tool, so you can run it like this:

uvx parakeet-mlx default_tc.mp3

The first time I ran this it downloaded a 2.5GB model file.

Once that was fetched it took 53 seconds to transcribe a 65MB 1hr 1m 28s podcast episode (this one) and produced this default_tc.srt file with a timestamped transcript of the audio I fed into it. The quality appears to be very high.

Tags: python, ai, nvidia, uv, mlx, speech-to-text

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Published on 2025-11-15 04:00