Parakeet MLX (CLI)
Use parakeet-mlx to transcribe audio locally on Apple Silicon.
Quick start
- •
parakeet-mlx /path/audio.mp3 --output-format txt - •
parakeet-mlx /path/audio.m4a --output-format vtt --highlight-words - •
parakeet-mlx *.mp3 --output-format all
Notes
- •Install CLI with:
uv tool install parakeet-mlx -U(notuv addorpip install) - •Use
parakeet-mlx --helpto see all options (--help, not-h). - •Models download from Hugging Face to
~/.cache/huggingfaceon first run. - •Default model:
mlx-community/parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3(optimized for Apple Silicon). - •Requires
ffmpeginstalled for audio processing. - •Output formats: txt, srt, vtt, json, or all.
- •Use
--verbosefor detailed progress and confidence scores. - •Accepts multiple files (shell wildcards like
*.mp3work).