From: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@friendly-machines.com>
Date: 2026-02-13
Subject: Use bundled Parakeet TDT V3 int8 model instead of downloading from
 HuggingFace.

The @PARAKEET_MODEL_DIR@ placeholder is replaced with the actual store path
during the build.

--- a/src/onnx_asr/loader.py
+++ b/src/onnx_asr/loader.py
@@ -308,6 +308,10 @@
         case "nemo-parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3":
             model_type = NemoConformerTdt
             default_repo_id = "istupakov/parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3-onnx"
+            if path is None:
+                path = "@PARAKEET_MODEL_DIR@"
+            if quantization is None:
+                quantization = "int8"
         case "nemo-conformer-aed":
             model_type = NemoConformerAED
         case "nemo-canary-1b-v2":
