Well, to clarify, it is both larger than parakeet in parameter count (parakeet is available in 0.6B and 1.1B), since it's 2B params, and also performs better than it on the benchmarks that hugging face publishes on the openASR leaderboard

Ahh thanks, I confused my parameter count, thanks. I guess Parakeet is 0.6B, I was somehow thinking 6B.