Moondream Shrinks Parakeet Redux Speech Recognition to 178 MB

Moondream shrank NVIDIA's Parakeet speech model from 1.2GB to 178MB using ternary weights, hitting 113x realtime on CPU while matching accuracy.

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Sep 25, 2026, 12:58 PM

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Moondream shrank NVIDIA's Parakeet speech model from 1.2GB to 178MB using ternary weights, hitting 113x realtime on CPU while matching accuracy.

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