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Parakeet TDT 0.6B v2

Hugging Face: nvidia/parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v2 · checked 2026-10-13

English ASR with word timestamps; extremely fast on GPU.

Datasheet

Maker
NVIDIA
Parameters
—Not yet measuredHF API lists no safetensors total for this repo Source
Licence
CC-BY-4.0Verified
Access
Public download
Task (HF pipeline)
automatic-speech-recognition
First published on HF
2025-04-15
Last updated on HF
2026-06-29

Benchmark

6.43%
Open ASR Leaderboard, average WER (English short-form) · #2 of 7 scored in this category

avg 6.4329, RTFx 6148.32. Source

Used in

The description summarises the model card at https://huggingface.co/nvidia/parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v2. Parameters and licence are read from the Hugging Face API; the weights-in-memory line is our arithmetic, not a measurement.