Parakeet TDT 0.6B v3
Hugging Face (open weights) Open weights
The catch: Covers 25 European languages only.
| Access | Open weights |
|---|---|
| Free limits | Free to download and self-host; you pay only for your own compute. 600M high-throughput speech-to-text model for 25 European languages, with automatic language detection. |
| Modality | audio |
| Credit card | Not required |
| Commercial use | Allowed |
| Trains on your data | – |
| Licence or terms | CC-BY-4.0 |
| Context window | – |
| Model id | nvidia/parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3 |
| Base URL | – |
| Last checked | 8 Oct 2026 |
How to use Parakeet TDT 0.6B v3
Download the weights and serve them yourself; the quickstart below shows one way. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.
Quickstart
pip install -U "nemo_toolkit[asr]" && python -c "import nemo.collections.asr as nemo_asr; print(nemo_asr.models.ASRModel.from_pretrained(model_name='nvidia/parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3').transcribe(['audio.wav'])[0].text)"
Paste into Claude Code
I want to run the open-weight model "Parakeet TDT 0.6B v3" (nvidia/parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3) for my project. Please: 1. Check the model card and tell me the hardware it needs and the simplest way to serve it (vLLM, SGLang, Ollama or a hosted endpoint). 2. Give me a minimal working setup and a test request. 3. Tell me the licence terms for commercial use. 4. If a cheaper or smaller variant would do the job, mention it.
Before you ship on it
- Covers 25 European languages only.
- CC BY 4.0 (licence tag on the HF repo): commercial use allowed if you give attribution.
- Free to run means you pay for the GPUs, the serving stack and the on-call.
Questions
Is Parakeet TDT 0.6B v3 free?
Yes. Open weights offers it as open weights, with these limits: Self-host free · CC-BY-4.0. No credit card is needed.
Can I use Parakeet TDT 0.6B v3 commercially?
Yes, under CC-BY-4.0. Check the current terms before you ship.
How do I start with Parakeet TDT 0.6B v3?
Download the weights and serve them yourself; the quickstart below shows one way. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.
Source: huggingface.co/nvidia/parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3, checked 8 Oct 2026.