aufklarer/Parakeet-TDT-v3-CoreML-INT8-iOS-5s

Parakeet TDT v3 — CoreML INT8 (iOS, 5s)

CoreML INT8 conversion of NVIDIA Parakeet-TDT 0.6B v2 for iOS, with encoder shape optimized for audio segments up to 5 seconds. Smaller and faster than the variable-length variant for short-form audio.

Models

Model	Description	Compute	Quantization
encoder.mlmodelc	FastConformer encoder (5s max)	Neural Engine	INT8 palettized
decoder.mlmodelc	LSTM prediction network	Neural Engine	FP16

Usage

Used by speech-swift ParakeetASR module:

let model = try await ParakeetASRModel.fromPretrained()
let text = try model.transcribeAudio(samples, sampleRate: 16000)

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• Guide: soniqo.audio/guides/parakeet
• Docs: soniqo.audio
• GitHub: soniqo/speech-swift