handy-computer / automatic-speech-recognition Open weights updated 3 weeks ago

parakeet-ultra-gguf

Ported from upstream commit 73175eb, pinned 2026-10-04. Validated against the kestrel 0.9.1 (Photon) reference at transcribe.cpp commit 08f9e6f0 on 2026-10-05.

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Commercial use: allowed cc-by-4.0 Not gated GGUF 25 languages View on Hugging Face ↗

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Can you run it?

Estimated VRAM at 8K context unless noted. Pick your hardware to see the verdict per quantization.

FileQuantSizeEst. VRAMVerdict on RTX 4090 · 24 GB
parakeet-ultra-Q4_K_M.gguf Q4_K_M 0.5 GB 1.0 GB ✅ Runs comfortably
parakeet-ultra-Q5_K_M.gguf Q5_K_M 0.5 GB 1.1 GB ✅ Runs comfortably
parakeet-ultra-Q6_K.gguf Q6_K 0.6 GB 1.2 GB ✅ Runs comfortably
parakeet-ultra-Q8_0.gguf Q8_0 0.7 GB 1.3 GB ✅ Runs comfortably
parakeet-ultra-F32.gguf GGUF 2.5 GB 3.3 GB ✅ Runs comfortably
Estimate: file size × 1.1 + KV cache at 8K + 0.5 GB overhead. Not a benchmark — how we calculate this.

Specifications

Licence
cc-by-4.0
First seen on the Hub
2026-10-05
Training datasets
undisclosed
Added to our catalog
2026-11-06
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