MacWhisper now helps Nvidia’s quick Parakeet mannequin

June 27, 2025

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MacWhisper has lengthy been top-of-the-line and best methods to transcribe something on a Mac. I’ve relied on it closely because it launched, and I can’t advocate it sufficient. As we speak, it bought even higher with an replace that provides assist for Nvidia’s insanely quick Parakeet mannequin. And I imply quick.

As OpenAI strikes away from Whisper, MacWhisper will get a Parakeet increase

When OpenAI got here out with its Whisper household of AI transcription fashions, they felt like magic. They have been a minimum of an order of magnitude sooner and extra correct than the rest on the market, particularly within the open-source market.

Nevertheless, as OpenAI shifted its focus to the extra commercially viable gpt-4o-transcribe fashions, Whisper began to point out its age. Quickly, newer transcription fashions did to Whisper what it had as soon as accomplished to its predecessors.

Nvidia’s Parakeet is certainly one of them. Introduced simply final month, it promised to transcribe “60 minutes of audio in simply 1 second”, offered you had the appropriate {hardware}, resembling A100, H100, T4, or V100 GPUs.

Parakeet has been out there by way of open-source instruments. The catch? Not everyone seems to be comfy navigating command-line interfaces or managing customized mannequin deployments.

Fortunately, that adjustments immediately: MacWhisper simply added assist for Nvidia’s Parakeet mannequin, and it truly is impossibly, extremely quick. Right here’s app developer Jordi Bruin:

“Due to our collaboration with the crew at Argmax, MacWhisper now helps the Parakeet fashions. To indicate you what a giant deal that is, try the gif beneath the place we transcribe and diarise a 30 minute podcast in underneath 8 seconds!”

I examined it on my M2 Professional MacBook Professional utilizing a current 3-hour episode of 9to5Mac Completely happy Hour, and it completed the job in simply 1 minute and 22 seconds, speaker recognition and all.

It’s price noting that the Parakeet mannequin is offered to Professional customers and at the moment helps English-only transcription. Bruin says the multilingual model is coming quickly.