NVIDIA Parakeet TDT v3
Small open model, more accurate and far faster than Whisper.
FreeOpen sourceRuns on your PC
- Best for
- Fast offline transcription in European languages
- On your PC
- Some setup
- Works on
- Windows, Mac, Linux
- License
- CC-BY-4.0
What’s good
- Beats Whisper turbo on the English leaderboard
- Very fast, transcribes an hour in seconds on a GPU
- Free for commercial use
Downsides
- Only 25 European languages, no Chinese, Japanese or Hindi
- Portuguese training is European, not Brazilian
- Raw model needs Python; easiest through apps like MacWhisper
The details.
- Version
- parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3Released 2025-08-14
- Open source
- Yes, CC-BY-4.0
- Made by
- NVIDIA
- Website
- huggingface.co
How it ranks.
- Open ASR Leaderboard English, average WER#33 · 7.03% errors2026-11-05
- Artificial Analysis speech to text, AA-WER % (via Together AI)#40 · 4.5% errors2026-11-05
Can I run it myself?
Yes. Some setup: download a model inside an app.
Use MacWhisper, Meetily, NeMo, Transformers.
- You need
- Any recent laptop with 4 GB RAM; fastest with NVIDIA GPU
- Setup
- Some setupDownload a model inside an app
- Laptop, 8 GBRuns
- PC, 16 GB+Runs
- Mac, 16 GBRuns
- Mac, 32 GBRuns
- Mac, 64 GB+Runs
- PC, 8 GB GPURuns
- PC, 12 GB GPURuns
- PC, 16 GB GPURuns
- PC, 24 GB GPURuns
- WorkstationRuns