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WhisPaste says its Parakeet speech recognition engine supports 25 European languages.
Checked against its source on October 26, 2026
In the source's own words
“Parakeet supports 25 European languages. It processed speech faster than the compact Whisper model”
WhisPaste: Desktop voice input, free on GitHub, WhisPaste (Silvio Lindstedt and Maik Gräfendorf, GbR), 2026, Parakeet engine description.
Open the original- What it measures
- WhisPaste offers Parakeet, an NVIDIA model that runs locally with GPU support or on the CPU, as an alternative to Whisper. Its home page gives the language count in the engine's own description.
- What it does not show
- The FAQ says about 25, and the engine description says 25, so the count is approximate in the maker's own words. The speed claim in the quote is the maker's, from its own CPU benchmark, and is not part of this count.
In the data
A row of How Many Languages Speech Recognition Supports, as WhisPaste, Parakeet engine: 25 languages.
- System
- WhisPaste (Parakeet engine)
- Maker
- WhisPaste
- Kind
- Dictation app
- What is counted
- Languages
- On device
- Yes
- As of
- 2026-10
Source
Used to calculate
- In the languages supported by speech recognition systems dataset, the 224 published figures for “Dictation app” have a median of 50 languages, ranging from 1 to 1,600.
- The languages supported by speech recognition systems dataset holds 383 data points, each a published figure traced to its source.
- The languages supported by speech recognition systems dataset draws on 322 distinct sources.