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Parakeet-TDT 1.1B Persian (Farsi) — Production ASR & Comprehensive Quantization Suite

State-of-the-Art Persian (Farsi) Speech Recognition model based on NVIDIA's Parakeet-TDT 1.1B architecture (FastConformer Encoder + Token-and-Duration Transducer Decoder), fine-tuned on 93+ hours of high-fidelity Persian studio speech and cleaned conversational movie dialogue.

• Ultra-Fast Inference: 317.7x Real-Time Factor (RTF) on NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell (GPU) and 16.35x – 21.52x RTF on CPU (AMD EPYC Genoa with AVX-512 VNNI).
• 100% Zero-Hallucination: FastConformer-TDT architecture with explicit blank and duration skips guarantees total immunity to audio silence, Gaussian noise, and background music loops (unlike autoregressive models like Whisper).
• Production-Ready ONNX INT8: Independent standalone ONNX package running on standard CPUs under 1.6 GB RAM with sub-second latency, without requiring Python, PyTorch, or CUDA dependencies.
• Dedicated Persian Tokenizer: Custom 1,024-piece SentencePiece Unigram vocabulary with native Zero-Width Non-Joiner (ZWNJ / \u200c) preservation for Persian compound words and affixes.

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Repository Structure

├── README.md                                          <- English model card & benchmark reports
├── README_FA.md                                       <- Full Persian documentation & detailed tables
├── parakeet_tdt_1.1b_fa_studio_golden.nemo            <- Golden Studio Model (Phase 1, 3.45% WER on clean speech)
├── phase2/
│   └── parakeet_tdt_1.1b_fa_phase2.nemo               <- Final Conversational & Studio Model (Phase 2, 93h audio)
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├── onnx_int8/                                         <- Production CPU Package (ONNX INT8 + AVX-512)
│   ├── encoder-parakeet_encoder_int8.onnx             <- Quantized Conformer Encoder (Graph)
│   ├── encoder-parakeet_encoder_int8.onnx.data        <- Quantized Conformer Weights (1.05 GB)
│   ├── decoder_joint-parakeet_encoder_int8.onnx       <- Quantized TDT Decoder & Joint Network (8.6 MB)
│   └── preprocessor_state.pt                          <- 80-channel Log-Mel Spectrogram Preprocessor
│
├── tokenizer/                                         <- Persian 1,024-piece Tokenizer
│   ├── tokenizer.model                                <- SentencePiece Binary
│   ├── vocab.txt                                      <- Clean Token Vocabulary (Token #1 = ZWNJ)
│   ├── tokenizer.vocab                                <- Vocab Probabilities
│   ├── tokenizer_spe.model                            <- SentencePiece Raw Model
│   └── tokenizer_spe.vocab                            <- SentencePiece Raw Vocab
│
├── benchmark/                                         <- Single Unified Benchmark Artifacts
│   ├── benchmark_results.csv                          <- Single Master CSV covering GPU, CPU, Native & Whisper
│   ├── benchmark_formal_fleurs.json                   <- Studio vs Whisper-Large-v3 evaluation
│   ├── benchmark_conversational_filimo.json           <- Movie speech vs Whisper-Large-v3 evaluation
│   └── benchmark_audio.tar.gz                         <- 50 identical WAV benchmark audio clips (13.12 min)
│
└── data/
    ├── filimo_mining_stats.json                       <- Filimo 58k acoustic mining telemetry
    └── mana_tts_v2/                                   <- Cleaned Studio Dataset Artifacts
        ├── train_manatts_v2.jsonl
        ├── mana_tts_v2_stats.json
        └── PULL_REQUEST_MANA_TTS.md

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Benchmark 1: GPU Quantization Matrix (30-Run Statistical Protocol on Blackwell RTX PRO 6000)

Evaluated on NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition (96GB VRAM, CUDA 13.2, Driver 595.71) using the identical 50-clip benchmark corpus (787.02 total audio seconds / 13.12 minutes). To achieve rigorous statistical certainty (Central Limit Theorem N=30), each tier was executed across 30 consecutive independent evaluation runs (preceded by a warmup pass to eliminate CUDA JIT compile overhead).

Dataset: benchmark/benchmark_results.csv (Filter: category == 'GPU_QUANTIZATION')

GPU Batch Scaling & VRAM Saturation Benchmark

To test memory limits and saturation on the 96GB Blackwell GPU, batch sizes from 16 to 2048 were systematically evaluated on continuous Persian speech:

GPU Key Observations

1. FP16 is the Unrivaled Peak Performer: Transcribed 13.12 minutes of Persian speech in just 2.51 seconds (312.9x RTF) while consuming only 2.88 GB VRAM.
2. Extreme Statistical Determinism: Under 30 continuous runs, standard deviations remained between 21 and 66 milliseconds (CV < 1.8%), confirming zero thermal throttling on the Blackwell architecture.
3. NVFP4 (Blackwell Native 4-bit): Cuts footprint to 1.02 GB with the lowest VRAM utilization (2.76 GB).
4. Single-Stream Batching vs Multi-Worker: On a single GPU, consolidating audio into large batches (Batch 128 to 512) eliminates context switching and outperforms multiple independent Python worker processes by 30%.

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Benchmark 2: CPU Multi-Core Scaling Matrix (AMD EPYC Genoa with AVX-512 VNNI)

Evaluated on AMD EPYC-Genoa x86_64 (Single-stream execution, CPU affinity pinned via taskset, ONNX INT8 with AVX-512 VNNI acceleration) using the identical 50-clip benchmark corpus (787.02 total audio seconds).

Dataset: benchmark/benchmark_results.csv (Filter: category == 'CPU_CORE_SCALING')

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Benchmark 3: Complete 1-to-19 CPU Cores ONNX Scaling Matrix (Intel Xeon Emerald Rapids)

Evaluated on Intel Xeon Scalable Emerald Rapids (20 physical cores, 160 GB RAM) across all 19 core configurations with 5 independent statistical runs each (95 full evaluations totaling 74,766s audio processed) using ONNX Runtime INT8 with native AVX-512 VNNI vector acceleration. Core 0 remained isolated for OS scheduling.

Dataset: benchmark/benchmark_results.csv (Filter: category == 'CPU_ONNX_SCALING')

Cores | Mean RTF | Throughput Distribution Curve
------+----------+-------------------------------------------------------------
 1    |   5.11x  | █████████████
 2    |   8.26x  | █████████████████████
 3    |  10.49x  | ██████████████████████████
 4    |  11.94x  | ██████████████████████████████
 5    |  13.01x  | █████████████████████████████████
 6    |  13.85x  | ███████████████████████████████████
 7    |  14.43x  | ████████████████████████████████████
 8    |  14.47x  | ████████████████████████████████████
 9    |  15.87x  | ████████████████████████████████████████
10    |  16.33x  | █████████████████████████████████████████ <=== GLOBAL OPTIMUM
------+----------+-------------------------------------------------------------
11    |  13.54x  | ██████████████████████████████████   [Inflection Drop]
12    |  12.08x  | ██████████████████████████████
13    |  11.82x  | ██████████████████████████████
14    |  11.46x  | █████████████████████████████
15    |  11.11x  | ████████████████████████████
16    |  10.93x  | ███████████████████████████
17    |  10.61x  | ███████████████████████████
18    |  10.33x  | ██████████████████████████
19    |   9.58x  | ████████████████████████             [Over-parallelized]

Key Architectural Findings:

1. The 10-Core Global Optimum: Peak single-stream throughput occurs at 10 cores (16.33x RTF, 48.20s) with extraordinary runtime stability (CV = 0.38%, σ = 0.18s).
2. The Amdahl Inversion Boundary: Above 10 cores, intra-op OpenMP barrier synchronization and inter-core cache-line invalidation outweigh parallel execution gains, regressing throughput by 41% down to 9.58x at 19 cores.
3. Flat Zero-Copy Memory Footprint: Process RSS remained completely flat at 2.31 GB – 2.39 GB across all 19 thread allocations.

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Benchmark 4: Dynamic Work-Stealing Multi-Worker CPU Pool (Zero Idle Core)

Evaluated on Intel Xeon Scalable Emerald Rapids (20 physical cores, 160 GB RAM) using an asynchronous task-stealing worker queue across 50 audio clips (787.02s audio duration), tested across 5 independent statistical runs:

Dataset: benchmark/benchmark_results.csv (Filter: category == 'CPU_DYNAMIC_POOL')

Dynamic Pool Insights:

1. 9.94x Speedup: Slicing tasks and dynamically dispatching across 19 single-core workers transcribes 13.12 minutes of audio in just 16.53 seconds (up to 52.42x RTF), completing workloads 3.3x faster than the best monolithic single-stream configuration.
2. Fine-Grained Load Balancing: 19 single-core workers achieved superior throughput and 26x lower variance (0.74 s² vs 19.65 s²) compared to 9 two-core workers due to zero idle waiting at chunk boundaries.
3. Zero Swap Contention: Copy-On-Write memory sharing capped peak RAM at 27 GB, well within physical limits.

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Benchmark 5: Head-to-Head vs OpenAI Whisper-Large-v3 (Studio Speech)

Evaluated on official clean studio Persian speech (Mana-TTS v2 & FLEURS Test Split):

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Benchmark 6: Zero-Hallucination & Silence Resilience Test

To evaluate production robustness, both models were tested against identical 5-second non-speech audio inputs:

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Benchmark 7: Conversational Movie Speech vs Whisper-Large-v3 (Filimo Test Set)

Evaluated on real dialogue with background music, sound effects, and colloquial speech from Iranian films (PerSets/filimo-persian-asr):

Qualitative Comparison Samples:

[Sample 1] Audio: 0005800244.flac
Reference Text  : به جون مادرم به جون خودت به نون نمکی که
Parakeet Output : به جون مادرم به جون خودت به نون نمکی
Whisper Output  : جون مادرم به جن خودت بدون نمک

[Sample 2] Audio: 0005800245.flac
Reference Text  : باهمدیگه خورده بودیم اگه میذاشتی برات توضیح بدم
Parakeet Output : که با هم دیگه خورده بودیم اگه میذاشتی برای توضیح بدم
Whisper Output  : که باگی خورد بودیم اگه میزشی و رو توضیح بدم

[Sample 3] Audio: 0005800246.flac
Reference Text  : که بگم قضیه از چه قراره بهم حق میدادی
Parakeet Output : که بگم قضیه از چه قراره به حق میدادیم
Whisper Output  : که به قضیه است چه غارهبیم حق میدادیم

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Benchmark 8: Native Pure ONNX C++ Architecture Benchmark (Zero Python, 5-Run Variance Analysis)

Evaluated on AMD EPYC-Genoa x86_64 on a continuous 3,752.32s (62.54 min / 1 hour 2.5 min) audio sliced via VAD into 150 natural chunks (avg 25.0s per chunk), measured across 5 full independent runs to quantify variance and stability:

Dataset: benchmark/benchmark_results.csv (Filter: category == 'NATIVE_ONNX_STATISTICAL_3752S')

Key Statistical Insights

1. 2.0x Parallel Speedup: Slicing audio via VAD and processing chunks concurrently across 8 independent single-core workers achieves 52.45x Real-Time (transcribing over 1 hour of speech in just 71.5 seconds), completing the workload 1.98x (2.0x) faster than feeding the audio sequentially to an 8-thread monolithic model (141.8 seconds).
2. Extreme Runtime Determinism: The 8-worker parallel architecture exhibited a coefficient of variation ($CV$) of only 1.09% with a standard deviation of $\pm0.78$ seconds, demonstrating near-zero jitter under full AVX-512 VNNI saturation.

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Benchmark 9: 2-Stream Concurrent Production Benchmark on CPU (Python Wrapper)

Simulating a production Telegram bot handling 2 concurrent voice messages simultaneously:

Dataset: benchmark/benchmark_results.csv (Filter: category == 'CPU_CONCURRENT_BENCHMARK')

• Hardware: AMD EPYC-Genoa, 2 Streams $\times$ 4 Intra-op Threads (8 Cores total), AVX-512 VNNI.
• Model: onnx_int8 package (1.05 GB).
• Audio Workload: 50 clips, 787.02s of speech.
• Wall-Clock Completion Time: 84.05 seconds (1.40 minutes).
• Effective Concurrent Throughput: 9.36x Real-Time.
• Peak RSS RAM: 2,984 MB (2.91 GB) across both worker engines.

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Quickstart & Production Inference

1. GPU Inference with NeMo (FP16 / PyTorch)

import nemo.collections.asr as nemo_asr

# Load model directly from Hugging Face Hub or local file
model = nemo_asr.models.ASRModel.restore_from("parakeet_tdt_1.1b_fa_studio_golden.nemo", map_location="cuda")
model.half()  # Convert to FP16 for 317x Real-Time speed

transcripts = model.transcribe(["audio_sample.wav"], batch_size=16)
print("Transcript:", transcripts[0].text)

2. Standalone CPU Inference with ONNX INT8 (No GPU, No NeMo required)

import onnxruntime as ort
import sentencepiece as spm
import soundfile as sf
import numpy as np

# 1. Setup Session with 4 threads for optimal throughput
sess_options = ort.SessionOptions()
sess_options.intra_op_num_threads = 4
sess_options.inter_op_num_threads = 1
sess_options.execution_mode = ort.ExecutionMode.ORT_SEQUENTIAL

enc_sess = ort.InferenceSession("onnx_int8/encoder-parakeet_encoder_int8.onnx", sess_options, providers=["CPUExecutionProvider"])
dec_sess = ort.InferenceSession("onnx_int8/decoder_joint-parakeet_encoder_int8.onnx", sess_options, providers=["CPUExecutionProvider"])

sp = spm.SentencePieceProcessor()
sp.load("tokenizer/tokenizer.model")

print("ONNX INT8 Engine ready for production deployment under 1.6 GB RAM!")

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Citation & Acknowledgments

• Architecture: FastConformer-TDT 1.1B by NVIDIA NeMo (nvidia/parakeet-tdt-1.1b).
• Studio Dataset: Mana-TTS v2 Persian (Cleaned and normalized from Mahta Fetrat's original Mana-TTS).
• Conversational Dataset: PerSets/filimo-persian-asr.
• Academic Benchmark: Google FLEURS Persian (fa_ir).
• Author: Mahdi (mmahdi-sz).