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Nawah-Parakeet-60M

by Ahmed Wasfy oddadmix/Nawah-Parakeet-60M

Nawah-Parakeet-60M is an open-weight model for speech recognition from Ahmed Wasfy. Its published files total 251.2 MB.

A 62.7M-parameter Parakeet-style Token-and-Duration Transducer for Arabic speech recognition — FastConformer encoder, TDT objective — trained from scratch with no pretrained encoder and no external language model.

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Weights251.1 MB
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Model Card

A 62.7M-parameter Parakeet-style Token-and-Duration Transducer for Arabic speech recognition — FastConformer encoder, TDT objective — trained from scratch with no pretrained encoder and no external language model. On the six test sets of the it reaches 31.34 average WER / 13.62 CER, which places it 8th of 38 evaluated systems — ahead of Voxtral-Small-24B, gemma-4-E4B, Qwen3-ASR-1.7B, nvidia-conformer-ctc-large-arabic and every Whisper model, at a fraction of their size. Every model above it is between 1B and 30B parameters, or a commercial API. Averages are recomputed over these six sets for every model so the ordering is consistent. Baseline figures are the leaderboard's published numbers.…

Excerpt from the card by Ahmed Wasfy.

Configuration

Architecture
ParakeetTDT
Model type
parakeet_tdt

Identity and Version

Repository
oddadmix/Nawah-Parakeet-60M
Publisher
Ahmed Wasfy
Task
Speech recognition
Modality
Audio
Library
torch
Parameters
Not stated by the source
Languages
ar
Revision
4d7afefffb52328d7f5d75ee5d7e90ba7d8d072e
First published
2026-09-27
Last updated
2026-09-27

Files and Weights

12 files, 251.2 MB in total. The weights are 1 file totalling 251.1 MB in pt.

Weights1 file · 251.1 MB
Configuration8 files · 41.7 KB
Tokenizer1 file · 58.4 KB
Documentation1 file · 8.6 KB
Repository1 file · 1.5 KB
Every file
FileTypeSizeSHA-256
nawah_parakeet_60m.ptWeights251.1 MB 9a480c3ea991
config.jsonConfiguration1.7 KB —
eval/lb_norm.pyConfiguration4.5 KB —
eval/leaderboard_results.jsonConfiguration829 B —
eval/ranking.jsonConfiguration16.5 KB —
eval/run_bench.pyConfiguration3.9 KB —
fastconformer.pyConfiguration5.8 KB —
parakeet_data.pyConfiguration4.0 KB —
parakeet_model.pyConfiguration4.4 KB —
README.mdDocumentation8.6 KB —
.gitattributesRepository1.5 KB —
tokenizer_bpe1024.jsonTokenizer58.4 KB —

License and Download

License
Not stated by the source
Access
Open weights, no gate
Download size
251.1 MB
Download from Ahmed Wasfy

Released by Ahmed Wasfy through its official repository on Hugging Face.

Built From

  • Described by arXiv:2412.13788

Memory Requirements

PrecisionWeights in memory
As published251.1 MB

Weights only, from the published parameter count; the key-value cache and runtime add to this.

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