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Parakeet Redux: is a 178 MB speech model useful in the real world?
Community description: Parakeet Redux tested on a laptop CPU and a Tesla T4: how ternary weights make it 178 MB, and its accuracy, speed, latency and memory against Parakeet, Whisper, Moonshine and three cloud APIs.
Dev.to | Oct 6, 2026 | Abhash Chakraborty
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Moondream recently released Parakeet Redux, a speech-to-text model that fits in 178 MB. The other nine systems: Parakeet TDT 0. 6B v3 at 16-bit (1,256 MB) and standard 8-bit (740 MB): Redux's original. Laptop run: 78 public clips, 5,531 words.
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