I-Parakeet: Integer-Only Conformer ASR on Mobile NPU

arXiv:2609.30846 · cs.CL, cs.SD, eess.AS · Submitted 2026-09-25 · Read on arXiv

cs.CL, cs.SD, eess.AS

Submitted: 2026-09-25

Updated: 2026-09-25

Code: https://github.com/mudler/parakeet.cpp

Terminology

• Quantization — 17× in this paper · explained in 12 episodes
• Calibration — 7× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Ablation — 4× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Transformer — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Core — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accuracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Activation Function — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Adam — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Edge Deployment — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Edge Devices — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Embeddings — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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