# NVIDIA Parakeet STT Now Available for Telnyx Voice AI

> Source: <https://telnyx.com/release-notes/nvidia-parakeet-stt-voice-ai>
> Published: 2026-07-17 00:00:00+00:00

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NVIDIA Parakeet is now available as a speech-to-text engine for Telnyx Voice AI, bringing self-hosted multilingual transcription with automatic language detection to production voice workflows. Built on the `nvidia/parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3`

model, Parakeet transcribes 25 European languages on Telnyx infrastructure, with no third-party API hop and no language hint required.

`language`

parameter is required.`transcription_start`

, TeXML `<Gather>`

with transcription, and the standalone TeXML `<Transcription>`

verb. REST batch transcription is not available.`linear16`

, `linear32`

, `mp3`

, or `wav`

audio at 16 kHz.`nvidia/parakeet-v3`

.For Call Control, POST to `transcription_start`

:

```
{
  "transcription_engine": "Parakeet",
  "transcription_engine_config": {
    "transcription_engine": "Parakeet",
    "transcription_model": "nvidia/parakeet-v3"
  }
}
```

For TeXML `<Gather>`

:

```
<Gather transcriptionEngine="Parakeet" model="nvidia/parakeet-v3">
  <Say>Please speak after the tone.</Say>
</Gather>
```

For WebSocket streaming:

```
wss://api.telnyx.com/v2/speech-to-text/transcription?transcription_engine=Parakeet&model=nvidia/parakeet-v3&input_format=linear16&sample_rate=16000
```

Parakeet accepts `linear16`

, `linear32`

, `mp3`

, or `wav`

audio at 16 kHz and returns final transcripts only. No interim or partial results. Endpointing is ignored.

**Learn more** in the [Speech-to-Text models docs](https://developers.telnyx.com/docs/voice/stt/models) or the [WebSocket streaming reference](https://developers.telnyx.com/docs/voice/stt/websocket-streaming/parameters).