Model guide
Ekko v1 Tiny Q5_0 for dictation on Mac
RyeAI's ekko v1 tiny, a 110M-parameter Danish Parakeet RNN-T, in its 5-bit GGUF build. Codictate's ekko engine runs it through parakeet-cli. It writes no punctuation or capitals, so Codictate adds them afterwards with its ekko-pnc punctuation model. Danish only. Licensed under the NVIDIA Open Model License, with RyeAI's changes under CC BY 4.0 and the CoRal training data's use restrictions on top.
Measured in Codictate on an Apple M4 Max, at least 927 recordings per language
- Word accuracy
- 90.1%
- Wait per second of audio
- 17 ms
- Peak RAM
- 299 MB
- Download
- 152 MB
- Languages
- Danish
- Translates to English
- No
Ekko v1 Tiny Q5_0 accuracy by language
The share of words transcribed correctly, so higher is better. English comes from LibriSpeech audiobooks, the other languages from FLEURS read speech.
| Language | Word accuracy |
|---|---|
| English (clean) | Targets Danish only. |
| English (noisy) | Targets Danish only. |
| Spanish | Targets Danish only. |
| Danish | 90.1% |
| Hungarian | Targets Danish only. |
The Ekko v1 Tiny Q5_0 model file
The file is ekko-v1-tiny-q5_0.gguf, published at emillykkegrann/ekko-v1-tiny-GGUF on Hugging Face. You do not have to fetch it yourself: pick the model in Codictate's Settings and the app downloads it for you.
How it compares
Every model with a guide, from the same recordings. Wait is milliseconds per second of audio, so lower is better.
| Model | Word accuracy | Wait per second of audio | Peak RAM | Download | Languages |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Whisper Large V3 Turbo Q5_0 | 93.5% | 66 ms | 778 MB | 574 MB | All Whisper languages |
| Whisper Large V3 Q5_0 | 94.0% | 106 ms | 1.5 GB | 1.1 GB | All Whisper languages |
| Whisper Large V3 | 94.0% | 164 ms | 3.5 GB | 3.0 GB | All Whisper languages |
| Whisper Large V3 Turbo | 93.6% | 93 ms | 1.9 GB | 1.6 GB | All Whisper languages |
| Whisper Medium Q5_0 | 90.8% | 65 ms | 878 MB | 514 MB | All Whisper languages |
| Whisper Small Q5_1 | 80.7% | - | 383 MB | 181 MB | All Whisper languages |
| Parakeet TDT 0.6B v3 | 92.0% | 11 ms | 80 MB | 500 MB | 25 |
| Hviske v5 Tiny Q5_0 | 88.7% (Danish) | 18 ms | 327 MB | 181 MB | Danish |
| Edda v0.2 Q5_0 | 92.5% (Danish) | 53 ms | 787 MB | 547 MB | Danish |
| Ekko v1 Tiny Q5_0 | 90.1% (Danish) | 17 ms | 299 MB | 152 MB | Danish |
Which model to pick · All benchmarks, including Wispr Flow · How we measure · Ekko v1 Tiny Q5_0 benchmark (Oct 2026)
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