We optimized NVIDIA's Parakeet 0.6B models to transcribe twice as fast on the
@Snapdragon 8 Elite, a flagship
@Qualcomm phone chip.
We moved the work from the chip's graphics processor to its AI processor, the Hexagon NPU. On a OnePlus 13s, Parakeet CTC 0.6B now transcribes a minute of audio in 970 ms, with the same text the GPU produced.
Thanks to
@NVIDIAAI for Parakeet and
@ggml_org for the code we built on.