Parakeet.cpp

A second engine for Parakeet TDT v3: Parakeet.cpp v0.5.0, native, CPU or Vulkan. ONNX remains the default.

Run hyprwhspr setup; choose Parakeet → Parakeet.cpp. Or: hyprwhspr setup auto --backend parakeet-cpp. Switching engines keeps ONNX settings and models.

{
    "transcription_backend": "parakeet-cpp",
    "parakeet_cpp_device": "auto"   // auto | cpu | vulkan
}

auto keeps an installed runtime. Otherwise: Vulkan when found, CPU when not. If Vulkan fails to load during setup, auto falls back to CPU; explicit vulkan reports why.

One model, pinned: tdt-0.6b-v3-q8_0 (~941 MB). Language is detected; prompts, translation and forced language do nothing here.

Linux x64 and ARM64. Downloads are checksummed at setup; dictation never downloads.

Runtime stored in: ~/.local/share/hyprwhspr/runtime/parakeet-cpp/

Model stored in: ~/.local/share/hyprwhspr/parakeet-cpp/models/