Show HN: Parakeetogo, a portable ASR binary faster than Photon/torch for CPU

Category: ai-ml

Tags: asr, ternary-model, cpu-inference, simd, speech-recognition, cpp, edge-computing

Score: 6.8/10 (Innovation: 6, Technical: 8, Documentation: 7, Utility: 6)

Parakeetogo is a standalone C++ inference engine for the ternary (1.58-bit) Parakeet TDT speech recognition model, optimized for CPU with hand-tuned SIMD kernels via Google Highway. It outperforms Photon by 2x on x86 and ARM, with a single binary, no Python, and no runtime downloads, making it ideal for resource-constrained deployments.

Target audience: backend devs, edge computing engineers, speech recognition researchers, devops

Repository: https://github.com/RobViren/parakeetogo · C++ · Apache-2.0 · 3 stars

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