FluidAudio
Shares rank 18 of 25 speech recognition models by recommenders
Free Swift library and CLI for running Parakeet speech recognition on Apple devices, with fast inference. Critics note it lacks streaming support.
Free Swift library and CLI for running Parakeet speech recognition on Apple devices, with fast inference. Critics note it lacks streaming support.
8 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 7
- criticize it
- 1
- approval share
- 88%
Recommended in 7 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 7 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 7 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 7 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Parakeet models on Apple devices
“Fluid Inference also have great implementations of Parakeet v2/v3 in CoreML for Apple devices”
Comment from 14 Nov 2025 in “Show HN: Chirp – Local Windows dictation with ParakeetV3 no executable required” “FluidAudio is a great option for those building Mac-only apps”
Comment from 27 Feb 2026 in “Parakeet.cpp – Parakeet ASR inference in pure C++ with Metal GPU acceleration”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
No streaming support
“I use fluidaudiocli and it's unfortunate that it doesn't support streaming”
Comment from 14 Jul 2026 in “Apple's new SpeechAnalyzer API, benchmarked against Whisper and its predecessor” Audio decoding ran three times
“audio decoding was happening three times instead of just once lol”
Comment from 14 Jul 2026 in “Apple's new SpeechAnalyzer API, benchmarked against Whisper and its predecessor”
Other speech recognition models people recommend
The four most recommended other speech recognition models, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAI Whisper | 164 | 53 | 76% | 12 | — | Approved |
| NVIDIA Parakeet | 144 | 27 | 84% | 12 | — | Approved |
| Mistral Voxtral | 69 | 27 | 72% | 8 | — | Approved |
| Moonshine open-weights STT models | 37 | 13 | 74% | 7 | — | Approved |
| FluidAudioThis page | 7 | 1 | 88% | 7 | — | — |
What people said
9 of the 12 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“I use fluidaudiocli and it's unfortunate that it doesn't support streaming”
“audio decoding was happening three times instead of just once lol”
“sped up Parakeet V2 and V3 to 320x and 282x faster than real time”
“Nice tip on FluidAudio that's the kind of thing I've been looking for.”
“I did that so that I could record my own inputs and finetune parakeet to make it accurate enough to skip post-processing.”
“Other popular repos for such tasks I would recommend”
“The devs are responsive and active and nice on their discord too.”
“FluidAudio is a great option for those building Mac-only apps”
“Fluid Inference also have great implementations of Parakeet v2/v3 in CoreML for Apple devices”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.