Parakeet: dictations in a blink
This release adds a second transcription engine, many times faster than Whisper for 25 European languages.
New
Parakeet Ultra
Even a one-word dictation took about a second to appear, because Whisper works through half a minute of audio for every piece.
Parakeet Ultra runs on your Mac's Neural Engine and pastes a typical dictation in well under a tenth of a second, about as accurately as Whisper. Choose it in the Model menu of Settings > Transcription; it downloads once (603 MB). It covers 25 European languages: when you select a language outside them, VoiceNoodler uses your Whisper model and says so under the menu. Parakeet doesn't use your dictionary words while transcribing, but their corrections still apply.