Notes From the build
Notes
Notes from building Talkie: speech models, the Mac app and the agents it works with.
Build the Parakeet model yourself
The four scripts that turn NVIDIA's Parakeet checkpoint into the 477 MB Core ML model inside Talkie, and what each one checks.
Vox · recipe · 5 min readWe rebuilt the model that hears you
Talkie's dictation runs on NVIDIA's Parakeet. We converted it to Core ML ourselves, starting from NVIDIA's own weights, and got it running on the Mac's Neural Engine at 477 MB.
Vox · parakeet:v3 · 8 min read