| name | parakeet-mlx |
| description | Local speech-to-text with Parakeet MLX (ASR) for Apple Silicon (no API key). |
| metadata | {"homepage":"https://github.com/senstella/parakeet-mlx","dependencies":{"parakeet-mlx":{"description":"Parakeet MLX CLI","check":"which parakeet-mlx","install":"uv tool install parakeet-mlx"}}} |
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).