parakeet-mlx
v1.0.0Local speech-to-text with Parakeet MLX (ASR) for Apple Silicon (no API key).
Installation
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).