NVIDIA · First MLX build 6 May 2025

parakeet-ctc-1.1b

MLX Audio cc-by-4.0

A 1.1B parameter speech recognition model from NVIDIA, with one MLX build.

Hugging Face
Parameters
1.1B
From Hugging Face
Quantisation
Unstated
parakeet-ctc-1.1b
Memory needed
7 GB
Estimate, unified memory
Download
4.3 GB
Weights, estimated
Downloads
313
This build, last 30 days
Task
Speech recognition
Audio
MLX builds
1
On mlx-community
Devices
Mac
Apple silicon

Memory

Estimated from the size of the weights, plus a fifth for context and working memory and 2 GB for macOS and your apps. Long contexts need more.

Run it

Terminal · Hugging Face CLI
$ pip install -U huggingface_hub
$ hf download mlx-community/parakeet-ctc-1.1b

MLX builds

1 on mlx-community
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parakeet-ctc-1.1b Unstated 4.3 GB 7 GB 313

Sizes are estimated from Hugging Face’s parameter counts and the quantisation. Downloads are for the last 30 days.