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+# Stages the Parakeet TDT 0.6B v2 int8 bundle (sherpa-onnx export) for the
+# asr_bench harness (test_parakeet branch). Bench-only artifact: lives next to
+# the app's models but under bench-parakeet\, never read by the app itself.
+$ErrorActionPreference = "Stop"
+$dest = "$env:LOCALAPPDATA\WhispAssist\models\bench-parakeet"
+$url = "https://github.com/k2-fsa/sherpa-onnx/releases/download/asr-models/sherpa-onnx-nemo-parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v2-int8.tar.bz2"
+$cache = "$env:LOCALAPPDATA\WhispAssist\models\bench-cache"
+New-Item -ItemType Directory -Force $cache | Out-Null
+$archive = Join-Path $cache "parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v2-int8.tar.bz2"
+
+if (Test-Path (Join-Path $dest "tokens.txt")) {
+    Write-Output "already staged: $dest"
+    exit 0
+}
+if (-not (Test-Path $archive)) {
+    Write-Output "downloading $url"
+    curl.exe -sL -o "$archive.part" $url
+    if ($LASTEXITCODE -ne 0) { throw "download failed ($LASTEXITCODE)" }
+    Move-Item -Force "$archive.part" $archive
+}
+New-Item -ItemType Directory -Force $dest | Out-Null
+tar -xjf $archive -C $dest --strip-components=1
+if ($LASTEXITCODE -ne 0) { throw "extract failed ($LASTEXITCODE)" }
+Get-ChildItem $dest | Select-Object Name, Length
+Write-Output "staged: $dest"