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 # Parakeet ASR
 
+⚠ **SUPERSEDED 2026-10-01:** the fleet speech seat moved to `stacks/parakeet-nemo`
+(parakeet-unified-en under NeMo; Prime's ruling, A/B in `docs/pfi/parakeet-seat-ab-2026-09-30.md`).
+The `parakeet` container on fv-ml1 is STOPPED, not removed — `docker stop parakeet-nemo && docker
+start parakeet` is the rollback. This dir is kept as the rollback's build source.
+
 NVIDIA Parakeet-TDT 0.6B (int8 ONNX) served by our own thin FastAPI
 wrapper over [sherpa-onnx](https://github.com/k2-fsa/sherpa-onnx)
 (ONNX Runtime + CUDA).