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Reddit r/LocalLLaMASeptember 11, 2026

Orukeet, new ASR model based on Parakeet

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I haven't seen this mentioned yet, so I thought it deserves a post. I was trying out OpenWhispr when this model came up as the recommendation. So I don't have personal experience yet, but it's supposed to be a better version of Parakeet, especially on Macs. Their official tidbit: "Orukeet is a 25-language speech recognizer built from NVIDIA Parakeet TDT 0.6B v3. It replaces half of the encoder's temporal depthwise filters with 12,288 fitted, frozen Gabor kernels and trains the remaining paramete