I liked Parakeet v3 a lot until it started to drop whole sentences, willy-nilly.

Yeah, I think the multilingual improvements in V3 caused some kind of regression for English - I've noticed large blocks occasionally dropped as well, so reverted to v2 for my usage. Specifically nvidia/parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v2 vs nvidia/parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3

Oh god am I glad to read this. Thought it was my microphone or something.

I didn’t see that but I do get a lot of stutters (words or syllables repeated 5+ times), not sure if it’s a model problem or post processing issue in the Handy app.