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 (not uv add or pip install)

• Use parakeet-mlx --help to see all options (--help, not -h).

• Models download from Hugging Face to ~/.cache/huggingface on first run.

• Default model: mlx-community/parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3 (optimized for Apple Silicon).

• Requires ffmpeg installed for audio processing.

• Output formats: txt, srt, vtt, json, or all.

• Use --verbose for detailed progress and confidence scores.

• Accepts multiple files (shell wildcards like *.mp3 work).