PaddlePaddle Parakeet (TTS)

by Baidu

Baidu's TTS half — included for end-to-end voice pipelines.

TL;DR

Baidu's TTS half — included for end-to-end voice pipelines.

Best for mandarin TTS prototyping inside PaddleSpeech-compatible pipelines. Pricing: free.

Category
Open source
License
—
Stars
—
Last push
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Pricing
free
Platforms
Linux

What it is

Note: unrelated to NVIDIA Parakeet ASR. Apache-2.0.

Best for: Mandarin TTS prototyping inside PaddleSpeech-compatible pipelines.
Watch out for: TTS, not ASR; included as a stack peer; mostly inactive — see PaddleSpeech.

Install / use

git clone https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/Parakeet

Features

Speaker diarizationNo
Word-level timestampsYes
Streaming / real-timeNo
Languages supported2
HIPAA eligibleNo

PaddlePaddle Parakeet (TTS) vs Whipscribe

FeaturePaddlePaddle Parakeet (TTS)Whipscribe
CategoryOpen sourceTranscription APIs
Pricingfreefree beta
Speaker diarizationNoYes
Word timestampsYesYes
StreamingNoNo
Languages299
PlatformsLinuxWeb, API, MCP

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