the parakeet TDT models that are coreml optimized by fluid audio are hands down the fastest local models i’ve tried— worth checking out!

(unloading to the NPU is where the edge is)

https://huggingface.co/FluidInference/parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v2-c...

https://github.com/FluidInference/FluidAudio

The devs are responsive and active and nice on their discord too. You’ll find discussions on all the latest whizbangs with VAD, TTS, EOU etc