Awesome-openclaw-skills parakeet-mlx

Name: parakeet-mlx
Author: sundial-org

Local speech-to-text with Parakeet MLX (ASR) for Apple Silicon (no API key).

install

source · Clone the upstream repo

git clone https://github.com/sundial-org/awesome-openclaw-skills

Claude Code · Install into ~/.claude/skills/

T=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/sundial-org/awesome-openclaw-skills "$T" && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r "$T/skills/parakeet-mlx" ~/.claude/skills/sundial-org-awesome-openclaw-skills-parakeet-mlx && rm -rf "$T"

OpenClaw · Install into ~/.openclaw/skills/

T=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/sundial-org/awesome-openclaw-skills "$T" && mkdir -p ~/.openclaw/skills && cp -r "$T/skills/parakeet-mlx" ~/.openclaw/skills/sundial-org-awesome-openclaw-skills-parakeet-mlx && rm -rf "$T"

manifest: skills/parakeet-mlx/SKILL.md

source content

Parakeet MLX (CLI)

Use

parakeet-mlx

to transcribe audio locally on Apple Silicon.

Quick start

parakeet-mlx /path/audio.mp3 --output-format txt

parakeet-mlx /path/audio.m4a --output-format vtt --highlight-words

```
parakeet-mlx *.mp3 --output-format all
```

Notes

Install CLI with:

uv tool install parakeet-mlx -U

(not

uv add

pip install

)

Use
```
parakeet-mlx --help
```
to see all options (
```
--help
```
, not
```
-h
```
).
Models download from Hugging Face to
```
~/.cache/huggingface
```
on first run.
Default model:
```
mlx-community/parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3
```
(optimized for Apple Silicon).
Requires
```
ffmpeg
```
installed for audio processing.
Output formats: txt, srt, vtt, json, or all.
Use
```
--verbose
```
for detailed progress and confidence scores.
Accepts multiple files (shell wildcards like
```
*.mp3
```
work).