Model comparison
parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v2 vs whisper-medium
At Q4_K_M, parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v2 is the smaller download — 475,491,840 bytes against 504,102,848.
From the file· summed bytes, KV per layer
Side by side
| parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v2 | whisper-medium | |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 618M | 764M |
| Architecture | parakeet | whisper |
| Layers | — | 24 |
| Native context | — | — |
| Mixture of experts | no | no |
| Quantizations published | 8 | 19 |
| Smallest quantization | 0.37 GiB | 0.25 GiB |
| Q4_K_M | 0.44 GiB | 0.47 GiB |
| Licence | cc-by-4.0 | apache-2.0 |
KV cache by context
the term that decides long-context viability
| Context | parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v2 | whisper-medium | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4,096 | — | — | — |
| 8,192 | — | — | — |
| 16,384 | — | — | — |
| 32,768 | — | — | — |
| 65,536 | — | — | — |
| 131,072 | — | — | — |