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Parakeet Unified EN 0.6B

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NVIDIA Corporation · nvidia.com since 1993 · who's behind it

Parakeet Unified EN 0.6B is NVIDIA's open-weight English speech recognition model, a 600M FastConformer encoder with an RNN-T decoder trained for both offline and streaming use down to 160 ms of latency, with punctuation, published as a NeMo archive.

Best for English voice agents and captioning that want one small model for both recorded and live audio and already run NeMo

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Assessment. One English model for batch and live transcription, with a well-documented data list and an NVIDIA team that answers. It runs only in NVIDIA NeMo from a pickle-format archive, with no safetensors, GGUF or quantised build, returns plain text without timestamps, and hasn't changed since June.

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Where it lives packages, source, docs and releases
Packages
huggingface nvidia/parakeet-unified-en-0.6b
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Last release
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Surface graded
The open weights at huggingface.co/nvidia/parakeet-unified-en-0.6b, read from the model card, its safety, bias and privacy files, the file list and metadata, the commit history and the runtimes' own code at their latest releases on 10 November 2026. NVIDIA's licence terms and security pages were read for its other listings. Nothing was downloaded or run
Model
A FastConformer encoder with 24 layers, trained jointly in offline and streaming modes, and an RNN-T decoder, 600M parameters per the card. The repository has no config for the Hub to count parameters from. Audio in, English text out with punctuation and capitalisation
Languages
English only. The training data is about 250,000 hours of US English, and the card's bias file gives the validation data as 80% American and 10% British English
Files
One NeMo archive, parakeet-unified-en-0.6b.nemo (2.47 GB, FP32), which holds a PyTorch checkpoint, a pickle format. No safetensors, no GGUF and no config.json. Hugging Face lists a SHA-256 for it
Licence
The NVIDIA Open Model License, a custom licence that allows commercial use. The card says the model is ready for commercial and non-commercial use
Runtimes
NVIDIA NeMo only (2.7.3 per the card), through ASRModel.from_pretrained and NeMo's chunked streaming script. Transformers 5.22.2 has Parakeet classes but the repository has no Transformers files, and vLLM, SGLang, llama.cpp, Ollama and LM Studio don't run it
Input and output
Mono wav audio in. Output is a string of English text with punctuation and capitalisation, read from output[0].text. The card documents no timestamps. Streaming latency is the chunk plus the right context, from 2.08 s down to 0.16 s, with a 5.6 s left context
Hardware
No memory figure on the card, which says the maximum audio length depends on GPU memory. Tested on NVIDIA V100, A100, A6000 and DGX Spark, on Linux
Training data
Mostly the English part of NVIDIA's Granary dataset: YouTube-Commons (109,500 hours), YODAS2 (102,000), LibriLight (49,500) and Mosel (14,000), plus LibriSpeech, Fisher, Switchboard, WSJ, the National Speech Corpus, VCTK, VoxPopuli, Europarl-ASR, Multilingual LibriSpeech, Common Voice, People's Speech and AMI. About 250,000 hours in all, with some transcripts written by people and some by ASR models

Facts verified 10 November 2026 from vendor docs, repositories and package registries. JSON · Markdown

Strengths

  • One model for offline and streaming transcription, down to 160 ms of latency
  • Small: a 2.47 GB file that fits any machine
  • Training datasets listed by name with hours
  • NVIDIA replied in every discussion on the repository
  • A security reporting route and public bulletins from NVIDIA

Weaknesses

  • The only file is a NeMo archive holding a pickle checkpoint
  • NVIDIA NeMo is the only runtime; none of the six we count runs it
  • No timestamps or other typed output documented
  • English only
  • A custom licence with a use policy that NVIDIA can change
  • No commit since 9 June 2026

Before you call it notes for agents

  1. Load it with NeMo: nemo_asr.models.ASRModel.from_pretrained(model_name='nvidia/parakeet-unified-en-0.6b'), then transcribe([path])[0].text
  2. Loading a .nemo archive unpickles a PyTorch checkpoint, so only load it from NVIDIA's repository
  3. Send mono wav audio. English only
  4. For live audio use NeMo's chunked RNN-T streaming script with a 5.6 s left context, and pick the chunk and right context from the card's table
  5. Below 240 ms of latency accuracy drops, and at 80 ms NVIDIA recommends its nemotron-speech-streaming-en-0.6b instead
  6. If you need word timestamps, use Parakeet TDT 0.6B v3

Who's behind it provenance 74/100

  • Legal entity namedNVIDIA Corporation20/20
  • Domain agenvidia.com, registered 1993-04-20 (33 years)15/15
  • Endpoint on the vendor's domainno hosted endpointn/a
  • Terms of serviceread, states 5 of the 7 things a reader expects, and has 1 clause that costs points6.3/10
  • Privacy policynothing hosted, not scoredn/a
  • Status pagenot found0/10
  • Changelogpublished10/10
  • security.txtnot found0/10
  • People named4 named with their role, 1 with a public profile10/10
  • Support routehelp pages, a community5/5

Terms and privacy, as read

Terms of service dated 2025-10-24, states 5 of 7, 1 to know

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…make available a NVIDIA Cosmos Model, or a product or service (including an AI model) that contains or uses a NVIDIA Cosmos Model, use a NVIDIA Cosmos Model to create a Derivative Model, or use a NVIDIA Cosmos Model or its outputs to create, train, fine tune, or otherwise improve an AI model, you will include “Built o…

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Gives the date it was last updated Last updated 2025-10-24
Last Modified: October 24, 2025

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Names the governing law or courts The law of the United States
This Agreement will be governed in all respects by the laws of the United States and the laws of the State of Delaware, without regard to conflict of laws principles or the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods.

Says where a dispute would be heard and under whose law.

States a limit on its liability Rules out indirect and consequential losses, with no cap named in this sentence
…or out of the use or inability to use the Model, Derivative Models or outputs (including but not limited to damages for loss of goodwill, work stoppage, computer failure or malfunction, or any and all other commercial damages or losses), even if NVIDIA has been advised of the possibility of such damages.

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…infringement, then any licenses granted to You under this Agreement for that Model or Derivative Model will terminate as of the date such litigation is filed.

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The document · read 2026-10-30 · 4,395 words

Privacy policy none to read

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The model sits in NVIDIA's Hugging Face organisation and the card's governing terms are the NVIDIA Open Model License. The domain registration date is carried from the RDAP check made for nemotron-3-nano-30b-a3b on 21 October 2026.

Nothing is hosted for this listing, so the licence stands in for terms of service and no privacy policy is scored.

The changelog is the commit history, 19 commits from 7 April to 9 June 2026, mostly card edits.

www.nvidia.com/.well-known/security.txt answered 403 at the 21 October 2026 check for nemotron-3-nano-30b-a3b. The card links NVIDIA's security vulnerability form.

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Humans behind the project who makes it and where to get help

Key people

NVIDIA on LinkedIn @nvidia GitHub

Ownership Public company (Nasdaq: NVDA)

Researched 10 November 2026 from public pages. NVIDIA's executive bios page lists Jensen Huang (Founder & CEO) and Chris A. Malachowsky (Founder & NVIDIA Fellow) as its founders. Curtis Priem, its third co-founder, was chief technical officer until he left in 2003, per Wikipedia. Product people on single listings (Nemotron, NeMo Guardrails, Parakeet) are kept as they are. Shown for information, not part of the grade yet. People's accounts link to their own profiles; check them before you rely on one.

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Notable

  • 8,455 downloads in the last 30 days and 80 likes on Hugging Face on 10 November 2026 source
  • The card gives an average word error rate of 5.91 offline on the Open ASR Leaderboard datasets, 6.52 at 0.56 s of latency and 8.44 at 0.16 s, against 6.04 offline for parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v2. These are NVIDIA's numbers, not our measurement source
  • The only file is a NeMo archive, which holds a PyTorch checkpoint, a pickle format. There is no safetensors or GGUF build source
  • The card says the pipeline supports buffered streaming only, with the left context recomputed for each chunk, and that the training pipeline isn't released yet source
  • An NVIDIA member replied in all five discussions on the repository source

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Score breakdown methodology v0.7 · October 2026 research run

Assessed on 10 November 2026 from public evidence, against the published checklist. Confidence low. Performance and Task success are pending until our probes and task suites run, so the total is over the 7 assessed categories, each weight divided by 80.

CategoryWeight this runScorePoints
Capabilitynot scored in this run 35%pending pending n/a
Reachchecked 10 November 2026 25%38.5 19.2
Memory 30, the only build is the FP32 NeMo archive, 2.47 GB, and 2.47 GB × 1.2 = 3.0 GB, under 16 GB. Runtimes 0, none of the six runs it in a released version. Builds 0, NVIDIA publishes no quantised build of it. Terms 10, the NVIDIA Open Model License is a custom licence, not OSI-approved, that lets anyone use the model commercially for free under a use policy, which is the custom-licence band, as on NVIDIA's other listings. Download 10, the Hub API reports gated false on 10 November 2026, so the file downloads with no account and nothing to accept. Hosted 0, Hugging Face's inference provider mapping is empty on 10 November 2026, and the card names no NVIDIA API that serves it. 30 + 0 + 0 + 10 + 10 + 0 = 50.
Riskchecked 10 November 2026 20%30.8 10.8
File safety 0, the only weights file is parakeet-unified-en-0.6b.nemo, a NeMo archive whose weights are a PyTorch checkpoint read with torch.load, a pickle format, and the card's documented path loads it. Provenance 15, the file sits in NVIDIA's own Hugging Face organisation, the one NVIDIA's NeMo repositories link to (10), and the Hub gives a SHA-256 for the archive and git hashes for the rest (5). Safety evaluation 0, no safety results on the card. Agent guidance 5, General cautions only. Licence risk 5, 15 less 5 for a use policy beyond the law (NVIDIA's Trustworthy AI terms and the guardrail clause) and 5 for terms the licensor can change or revoke, as read for NVIDIA's other listings under the same licence. Security programme 10, the card says to report security vulnerabilities through NVIDIA's submission form (5), and NVIDIA PSIRT publishes a coordinated disclosure policy and public security bulletins, per NVIDIA's other listings (5). 0 + 15 + 0 + 5 + 5 + 10 = 35.
Agent interfacechecked 10 November 2026 10%15.4 5.4
Chat template 0, no chat template and no prompt. Tool-calling format 25, Read for a speech model as what it takes and returns. Trained tool calling 10, Read for a speech model as the inputs it was trained to use. Structured output 0, Read for a speech model as typed outputs. Reasoning control 0, A speech recognition model with no reasoning. Context 0, no token context is stated. 0 + 25 + 10 + 0 + 0 + 0 = 35.
Documentation and upkeepchecked 10 November 2026 10%15.4 12.2
Model card 14, Intended use, limitations (buffered streaming only, accuracy falling at 160 ms and below), architecture, parameters (600M) and the language are there. Training data 20, the card lists the training datasets by name, with hours for the four Granary subsets and about 250,000 hours in all, says how the transcripts were made, and NVIDIA publishes Granary on Hugging Face. Last change 10, the last commit to the repository, on 9 June 2026, edited the card, 154 days before this check and within 180. Responsiveness 20, All 5 discussions that aren't pull requests (8 April to 24 June 2026) have a reply from an NVIDIA member, counted on 10 November by author flags and dates with a script, text not read. Version policy 5, A first release of the unified model. File health 10, one archive and a card that agree on the model's name, size and NeMo as the way to load it. 14 + 20 + 10 + 20 + 5 + 10 = 79.
Negative events≤15None recorded0
Total47.5 · D

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  1. Graded 47.5 D methodology v0.7

Fix list 12 items, the biggest gain first

Everything this grade says the listing lacks, from the reasons above, the checklist, the provenance checks, the deductions, what we couldn't check and what the review panel asked for, with the steps, ready to paste into a coding agent working on Parakeet Unified EN 0.6B. A fix counts at the next check, once it's public.

What we couldn't check

  • File safety is 0 because the only weights are in a pickle format. The checklist's 15 band is for pickle files beside safer ones, and there are none here
  • Last change reads the repository's commits. The Parakeet TDT listing read NVIDIA's own runtime's code for that line, and no such runtime was checked for this model
  • Capability is pending because no independent results were looked up on the day. The card's results are on the Open ASR Leaderboard's datasets, run by NVIDIA
  • The gap list put it among the models that clear the October cut. Its own 30-day downloads are 8,455, so that rested on copies
  • unchecked on 10 November: NVIDIA's licence text and security pages, read for its other listings, the paper (arXiv 2604.19079) and whether NeMo's streaming script still matches the card

Sources 13

  1. model card huggingface.co · seen 2026-11-10
  2. gating, dates, downloads, likes, file list and hashes huggingface.co · seen 2026-11-10
  3. inference providers, none mapped huggingface.co · seen 2026-11-10
  4. commit history huggingface.co · seen 2026-11-10
  5. the card's safety file huggingface.co · seen 2026-11-10
  6. the card's bias file huggingface.co · seen 2026-11-10
  7. the card's privacy file, head read huggingface.co · seen 2026-11-10
  8. discussions, replies counted by script from authors, dates and member flags huggingface.co · seen 2026-11-10
  9. NVIDIA's Parakeet repositories huggingface.co · seen 2026-11-10
  10. the NVIDIA Open Model License, read for NVIDIA's other listings nvidia.com · seen 2026-11-10
  11. NVIDIA's vulnerability submission form, linked from the card nvidia.com · seen 2026-11-10
  12. Transformers v5.22.2, the parakeet model directory (shallow clone) github.com · seen 2026-11-10
  13. vLLM v0.33.0 registry, no Parakeet raw.githubusercontent.com · seen 2026-11-10

Probe metrics

Not measured yet. Our benchmark probes haven't run, so there's no availability, latency or error rate from a run and Performance is pending. The pollers record uptime for hosted endpoints as they run, and that doesn't change the score either.

Pricing & changes

Free Free Free to download and use, commercial use included, under the NVIDIA Open Model License. Running it yourself costs little hardware, a 2.47 GB NeMo archive in FP32 (checked 2026-11-10).

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Install

pip install -U "nemo_toolkit[asr]"
python -c "import nemo.collections.asr as nemo_asr; m = nemo_asr.models.ASRModel.from_pretrained(model_name='nvidia/parakeet-unified-en-0.6b'); print(m.transcribe(['speech.wav'])[0].text)"

First request

# no HTTP server ships with it. For streaming, NeMo's script:
python examples/asr/asr_chunked_inference/rnnt/speech_to_text_streaming_infer_rnnt.py \
  pretrained_name=nvidia/parakeet-unified-en-0.6b dataset_manifest=manifest.json \
  left_context_secs=5.6 chunk_secs=0.56 right_context_secs=0.56 att_context_size_as_chunk=true

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