Tops the Hugging Face Open ASR Leaderboard with 6.05% average WER at 0.6B params
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.
NVIDIA Parakeet is listed as fully free — there is no paid tier attached to it in the catalog. That makes it one of the 115 entries on Flocci AI Tools with no upgrade path built in.
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.
OpenAI Whisper is the closest free alternative: it sits in the same Speech & Transcription Engines sub-category and is free. WhisperX, AssemblyAI and Deepgram also start free. The full list is on the alternatives page.
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