M87 Labs compresses Nvidia's Parakeet speech model to 178MB
Parakeet Redux runs at a claimed 113x realtime on eight CPU cores, with sharper multilingual scores and a measurable penalty in noisy audio.
By Ryan Merket · Published · Updated
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Why it matters
Parakeet Redux puts capable multilingual transcription inside a 178MB package, making local voice features more practical on CPUs and laptops while exposing the accuracy cost of extreme compression.
Vik Korrapati (@vikhyatk), co-founder of M87 Labs, released Parakeet Redux on September 21st, 2026, compressing Nvidia's 600-million-parameter speech recognition model from 1.2GB to 178MB by reducing its encoder weights to three possible values.…
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