Model Detail

parakeet-ultra is an audio model with 314M parameters released by moondream. The model is registered under the automatic-speech-recognition pipeline tag on Hugging Face, distributed under the permissive cc-by-4.0 license.

parakeet-ultra ships with 314M parameters. The cc-by-4.0 license is permissive, allowing commercial deployment and derivative work without per-seat fees, though attribution requirements still apply.

Downloads of parakeet-ultra have moved +14.0% over the trailing seven days. The trend is mildly positive, consistent with a model that is being picked up incrementally rather than going viral. These numbers are signal, not guarantee — week-over-week download counts on Hugging Face also reflect mirror traffic, CI scrapes, and one-off benchmarking runs.

parakeet-ultra is best fit for speech recognition, transcription, or speech synthesis depending on the task head. Treat this as a starting matrix rather than a benchmark verdict — the right deployment usually depends on the specific evaluation suite that mirrors your workload.