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Parakeet Redux: is a 178 MB speech model useful in the real world?

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Moondream recently released Parakeet Redux , a speech-to-text model that fits in 178 MB. It's NVIDIA's Parakeet TDT 0.6B v3 , one of the strongest open speech models, with its weights cut down to three values each. The original is 1,256 MB, and the model card says accuracy stays close to it. A 0.6B…

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  1. 2026-10-06 19:08 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
    Parakeet Redux: is a 178 MB speech model useful in the real world?

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