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parakeet-mlx

Local speech-to-text with Parakeet MLX (ASR) for Apple Silicon (no API key).

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Installation

npx clawhub@latest install parakeet-mlx

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Parakeet MLX (CLI)

Use parakeet-mlx to transcribe audio locally on Apple Silicon.

Quick start

  • parakeet-mlx /path/audio.mp3 --output-format txt

  • parakeet-mlx /path/audio.m4a --output-format vtt --highlight-words

  • parakeet-mlx *.mp3 --output-format all


Notes
  • Install CLI with: uv tool install parakeet-mlx -U (not uv add or pip install)

  • Use parakeet-mlx --help to see all options (--help, not -h).

  • Models download from Hugging Face to ~/.cache/huggingface on first run.

  • Default model: mlx-community/parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3 (optimized for Apple Silicon).

  • Requires ffmpeg installed for audio processing.

  • Output formats: txt, srt, vtt, json, or all.

  • Use --verbose for detailed progress and confidence scores.

  • Accepts multiple files (shell wildcards like *.mp3 work).

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