From: <huggingface.co/mlx-community> Newsgroups: alt.freeweights.speechSubject: parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v2 Date: 2026-11-15Commit: 8ae1553Signed: 2DC28CC7B26A283B ✓ Automatic speech recognition model with 618M parameters. Safetensors weights, 2.47 GB in all. Published by mlx-community under CC-BY-4.0.
618M params 2.47 GB parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v2 safetensors permissive Facts Params 618M Size 2.47 GB Formats safetensors Task automatic speech recognition License CC-BY-4.0 permissive
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$ fw get mlx-community/parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v2
# manifest sha256 1cb46ab713bc… · 2.47 GB · 7 files
$ fw verify ./parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v2 mlx-community/parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v2Hosted (signed) mlx-community/parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v2 Last check: 2026-11-15 02:26 UTC
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Size 2.47 GB
Weights 2.47 GB (safetensors)
Parameters 618M
Formats safetensors
Task automatic speech recognition
License CC-BY-4.0 (permissive)
Files 7, each with a sha256
Publisher mlx-community
Added 2026-11-15
Section alt.freeweights.speech Lineage
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Base model: nvidia/parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v2
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Use with mlx#
parakeet-mlx#
pip install -U parakeet-mlxparakeet-mlx audio.wav --model mlx-community/parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v2mlx-audio#
pip install -U mlx-audiopython -m mlx_audio.stt.generate --model mlx-community/parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v2 --audio audio.wav --output somewhere Files 7 files · 2.47 GB Weights 2.47 GB (safetensors). Sizes and sha256 from the signed manifest.
Hide all 7 files with their sha256 File Size sha256 .gitattributes 1.52 KB 11ad7efa24975ee4b0c3c3a38ed18737f0658a5f75a0a96787b576a78a023361 README.md 945 B af484ebbab54ee50ccfa4f07e778c0f7b2f05a0ac6a2d138e5aee5aae1366f9b config.json 36.2 KB 9bd323e60afe2615c983a5d9fc3a2c0470df2a03edf90c0f861bd59509d07264 model.safetensors 2.47 GB b958c37a6baa6874a279108755c8f2818e27bf647d72d54800a234a421341dfe tokenizer.model 251 KB 5a3a82c48998709f9bc9f5db2924d99a899d20bf82550ca52272da7c7557b0a0 tokenizer.vocab 10.4 KB dbe7ec6bd066c4526080940e1614e6582b9161515e856c2c39a1d49267c88cbc vocab.txt 5.07 KB 70b25deed256d79365a3c290d6191c31cc2315d952faf18d5c3a334f46e4866e
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Upstream commit Date Contents 8ae155301e pinned now 2026-11-15 02:26 UTC 7 files · 2.47 GB
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$ fw get mlx-community/parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v2
# manifest sha256 1cb46ab713bc… · 2.47 GB · 7 files
$ fw verify ./parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v2 mlx-community/parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v2fw.py Checks the signature and every sha256, tries each source in order, resumes.
$ python3 fw.py get https://freeweights.allternit.com/manifests/mlx-community/parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v2.json --dir ./parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v2
$ python3 fw.py verify ./parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v2 ./mlx-community__parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v2.jsonhf The Hugging Face CLI with one setting. Same repo id.
$ HF_ENDPOINT =https://freeweights.allternit.com hf download mlx-community/parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v2 --revision 8ae155301e23d820d82aa60d24817c900e69e487 --local-dir ./parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v2transformers Speech recognition with the transformers pipeline.
import os
os.environ["HF_ENDPOINT" ] = "https://freeweights.allternit.com"
from transformers import pipeline
asr = pipeline("automatic-speech-recognition", model="mlx-community/parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v2", revision="8ae155301e23d820d82aa60d24817c900e69e487")
print(asr("audio.wav")["text"])License Name Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Id CC-BY-4.0 Class Permissive Redistribution yes Listing Hosted (signed) Decided License as declared by the publisher. No person read it. 2026-11-15 Text in README.md Text sha256 af484ebbab54ee50ccfa4f07e778c0f7b2f05a0ac6a2d138e5aee5aae1366f9b Terms gate No extra terms beyond the license. Read the license text
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Provenance From: <huggingface.co/mlx-community> Newsgroups: alt.freeweights.speechSubject: parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v2 Date: 2026-11-15Commit: 8ae1553Signed: 2DC28CC7B26A283B ✓ Upstream mlx-community/parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v2 Pinned commit 8ae155301e23d820d82aa60d24817c900e69e487 Manifest parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v2.json · .minisig Manifest sha256 1cb46ab713bc818959c5393ee48ef3c3c5d803bcf7fb6db334d0695f2d616db2 Signature minisign, Ed25519, key 2DC28CC7B26A283B Created 2026-11-15 02:26 UTC Generator freeweights-manifest/0.1.0 Takedowns None. How to verify
$ curl -O https://freeweights.allternit.com/manifests/mlx-community/parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v2.json
$ curl -O https://freeweights.allternit.com/manifests/mlx-community/parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v2.json.minisig
$ minisign -Vm parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v2.json -P RWQ7KGqyx4zCLXtUFOqvfv8L3g+8fpKJ1FsuxPyOYMF+4KufbUxKq1Oq
$ shasum -a 256 <file> # compare with the Files tab A manifest whose signature fails must be rejected. A file whose size or sha256 does not match must be discarded. Verify a download
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$ HF_ENDPOINT =https://freeweights.allternit.com hf download mlx-community/parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v2Open in Freeweights Studio Pull, verify and run it in the Allternit app on Desktop, web or phone.
87M params 693 MB ast-finetuned-audioset-10-10-0.4593 safetensors permissive Facts Params 87M Size 693 MB Formats safetensors Task audio classification License BSD-3-Clause permissive flip From: MIT <huggingface.co/MIT> Subject: ast-finetuned-audioset-10-10-0.4593 speech 958 MB ast-finetuned-audioset-10-10-0.4593-ONNX onnx permissive Facts Params not stated Size 958 MB Formats onnx Task audio classification License BSD-3-Clause permissive flip From: <huggingface.co/onnx-community> Subject: ast-finetuned-audioset-10-10-0.4593-ONNX 601M params 2.57 GB Audio8-TTS-Preview-0.6b safetensors permissive Facts Params 601M Size 2.57 GB Formats safetensors Task text to speech License Apache-2.0 permissive flip From: Edge0 <huggingface.co/Edge0> Subject: Audio8-TTS-Preview-0.6b 601M params 2.57 GB Audio8-TTS-Realistic-Air safetensors permissive Facts Params 601M Size 2.57 GB Formats safetensors Task text to speech License Apache-2.0 permissive flip From: Edge0 <huggingface.co/Edge0> Subject: Audio8-TTS-Realistic-Air 104M params 831 MB audiobox-aesthetics safetensors permissive Facts Params 104M Size 831 MB Formats safetensors Task audio classification License CC-BY-4.0 permissive flip From: facebook <huggingface.co/facebook> Subject: audiobox-aesthetics 693M params 612 MB chatterbox-4bit safetensors permissive Facts Params 693M Size 612 MB Formats safetensors Task text to speech License Apache-2.0 permissive flip From: <huggingface.co/mlx-community> Subject: chatterbox-4bit
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