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NVIDIA Parakeet

Tops the Hugging Face Open ASR Leaderboard with 6.05% average WER at 0.6B params

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What NVIDIA Parakeet does

  • Tops the Hugging Face Open ASR Leaderboard with 6.05% average WER at 0.6B params
  • CC-BY-4.0 license, free for commercial and non-commercial use
  • RTFx ~3,386 — extremely fast inference relative to accuracy

NVIDIA Parakeet — straight answers

What is NVIDIA Parakeet?

NVIDIA Parakeet is listed under Speech & Transcription Engines, in the AI Models & Local Execution category on Flocci AI Tools. Tops the Hugging Face Open ASR Leaderboard with 6.05% average WER at 0.6B params. It is free, with no paid plan attached, and it lives at huggingface.co.

Is NVIDIA Parakeet free?

NVIDIA Parakeet is listed as fully free — there is no paid tier attached to it in the catalog. That makes it one of the 396 entries on Flocci AI Tools with no upgrade path built in.

Can I use NVIDIA Parakeet in a browser, or is there an app?

NVIDIA Parakeet works in a normal browser tab with no install. It is available on self-hosting, the web and an API.

What can NVIDIA Parakeet do?

NVIDIA Parakeet does 3 things the catalog singles out: Tops the hugging face open asr leaderboard with 6.05% average wer at 0.6b params; cc-by-4.0 license, free for commercial and non-commercial use; rtfx ~3,386 — extremely fast inference relative to accuracy.

What is the best free alternative to NVIDIA Parakeet?

NVIDIA Canary-Qwen 2.5B is the closest free alternative: it sits in the same Speech & Transcription Engines sub-category and is free. sherpa-onnx, faster-whisper and FunASR also start free. The full list is on the alternatives page.

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OpenAI Whisper

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  • Open-source speech-to-text, run locally free
  • 99+ languages and translation
  • Robust to accents and noise
  • Powers countless apps
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Deepgram

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  • Fast, accurate speech-to-text API
  • Real-time streaming and diarization
  • Voice-agent building blocks
  • Free credits to start
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AssemblyAI

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freemium
  • Speech-to-text with audio intelligence
  • Summaries, topics and sentiment
  • Speaker diarization
  • Free tier for developers
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Mistral Voxtral

Speech & Transcription Engines
freemium
  • Apache 2.0 open-weight models (24B and 3B) downloadable from Hugging Face
  • Built-in Q&A/summarization over audio, not just raw transcription
  • Function-calling directly from voice input for agent workflows
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Speechmatics

Speech & Transcription Engines
freemium
  • Free starting credit with no card required, 56+ language support
  • Model-training discount program cuts costs 33% for data-sharing customers
  • On-premises/VPC deployment for privacy-sensitive enterprise use
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Soniox

Speech & Transcription Engines
freemium
  • Real-time speech-to-text priced well under typical competitor rates
  • Combines transcription + translation in one streaming API call
  • Diarization and speech translation bundled at no extra cost
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