NVIDIA Parakeet
NVIDIA Parakeet is a model family from NVIDIA (NeMo)51, with 2 assessed releases in this catalog. Licenses and availability are recorded for each release, not for the family; its releases use the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International and the NVIDIA Open Model License Agreement.
Parakeet is NVIDIA's family of automatic speech recognition models built on the FastConformer encoder in the NeMo toolkit, released with CTC, RNN-T, TDT, and hybrid TDT-CTC decoders. The first checkpoints were published on Hugging Face in December 2023; the card for one of them, parakeet-rnnt-1.1b, says it was developed jointly by the NVIDIA NeMo and Suno.ai teams. Later releases include the English parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v2 (April 2025), the 25-language parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3 (August 2025), and parakeet-unified-en-0.6b (April 2026), which handles offline and streaming transcription in one model; there are also language-specific checkpoints such as Japanese, Danish, and Vietnamese.12345
- Repository: NeMo Speech repository (external site: github.com)
- Model hub: parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3 (Hugging Face) (external site: huggingface.co)
- Model hub: parakeet-unified-en-0.6b (Hugging Face) (external site: huggingface.co)
- Dataset hub: Granary dataset (Hugging Face) (external site: huggingface.co)
Releases assessed
| Release | Weights | Tier (USASI rubric v0.2) | License | Released |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3 | Weights: Public | Model-disclosure tier (USASI rubric v0.2): Open-weight | CC-BY-4.0, Apache-2.0 | Aug 14, 2025 |
| NVIDIA parakeet-unified-en-0.6b | Weights: Public | Model-disclosure tier (USASI rubric v0.2): Open-weight | NVIDIA Open Model License Agreement, Apache-2.0 | Apr 7, 2026 |
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NVIDIA releases NeMo Speech 3.0, the first major release after the NeMo repository split
NVIDIA published NeMo Speech 3.0 on GitHub on August 7, 2026. The release notes call it the first major release after the repository was split and renamed to NVIDIA-NeMo/Speech, which now focuses on ASR, TTS, audio processing, speaker tasks and SpeechLM, while LLM, VLM, diffusion, export and evaluator collections have moved to separate repositories. The notes say the release's central focus is technical debt, including the removal of deprecated code and a migration to the uv package manager. They also list support for training SpeechLM models with NeMo Automodel and the training and evaluation modules behind Nemotron VoiceChat. USASI has not tested this release.
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Eligible · basis: U.S. headquarters
The Parakeet checkpoints are published in NVIDIA's Hugging Face organization and announced in NVIDIA's NeMo Speech repository, and the cards describe training with NVIDIA's NeMo toolkit. NVIDIA's principal executive offices are in Santa Clara, California, per its Form 10-Q for the quarter ended July 26, 2026. The parakeet-rnnt-1.1b card says that early checkpoint was developed jointly with the Suno.ai team.15326
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USASI. (2026, October 1). NVIDIA Parakeet. United States of America Superintelligence. https://unitedstatesofamericasuperintelligence.com/open/parakeet/
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title = {NVIDIA Parakeet},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
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