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metadata
license: cc-by-4.0
language:
  - en
  - es
  - fr
  - de
  - bg
  - hr
  - cs
  - da
  - nl
  - et
  - fi
  - el
  - hu
  - it
  - lv
  - lt
  - mt
  - pl
  - pt
  - ro
  - sk
  - sl
  - sv
  - ru
  - uk
pipeline_tag: automatic-speech-recognition
library_name: nemo
datasets:
  - nvidia/Granary
  - nemo/asr-set-3.0
thumbnail: null
tags:
  - automatic-speech-recognition
  - speech
  - audio
  - Transducer
  - TDT
  - FastConformer
  - Conformer
  - pytorch
  - NeMo
  - hf-asr-leaderboard
widget:
  - example_title: Librispeech sample 1
    src: https://cdn-media.huggingface.co/speech_samples/sample1.flac
  - example_title: Librispeech sample 2
    src: https://cdn-media.huggingface.co/speech_samples/sample2.flac
model-index:
  - name: parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3
    results:
      - task:
          name: Automatic Speech Recognition
          type: automatic-speech-recognition
        dataset:
          name: AMI (Meetings test)
          type: edinburghcstr/ami
          config: ihm
          split: test
          args:
            language: en
        metrics:
          - name: Test WER
            type: wer
            value: 11.31
      - task:
          name: Automatic Speech Recognition
          type: automatic-speech-recognition
        dataset:
          name: Earnings-22
          type: revdotcom/earnings22
          split: test
          args:
            language: en
        metrics:
          - name: Test WER
            type: wer
            value: 11.42
      - task:
          name: Automatic Speech Recognition
          type: automatic-speech-recognition
        dataset:
          name: GigaSpeech
          type: speechcolab/gigaspeech
          split: test
          args:
            language: en
        metrics:
          - name: Test WER
            type: wer
            value: 9.59
      - task:
          name: Automatic Speech Recognition
          type: automatic-speech-recognition
        dataset:
          name: LibriSpeech (clean)
          type: librispeech_asr
          config: other
          split: test
          args:
            language: en
        metrics:
          - name: Test WER
            type: wer
            value: 1.93
      - task:
          name: Automatic Speech Recognition
          type: automatic-speech-recognition
        dataset:
          name: LibriSpeech (other)
          type: librispeech_asr
          config: other
          split: test
          args:
            language: en
        metrics:
          - name: Test WER
            type: wer
            value: 3.59
      - task:
          type: Automatic Speech Recognition
          name: automatic-speech-recognition
        dataset:
          name: SPGI Speech
          type: kensho/spgispeech
          config: test
          split: test
          args:
            language: en
        metrics:
          - name: Test WER
            type: wer
            value: 3.97
      - task:
          type: Automatic Speech Recognition
          name: automatic-speech-recognition
        dataset:
          name: tedlium-v3
          type: LIUM/tedlium
          config: release1
          split: test
          args:
            language: en
        metrics:
          - name: Test WER
            type: wer
            value: 2.75
      - task:
          name: Automatic Speech Recognition
          type: automatic-speech-recognition
        dataset:
          name: Vox Populi
          type: facebook/voxpopuli
          config: en
          split: test
          args:
            language: en
        metrics:
          - name: Test WER
            type: wer
            value: 6.14
      - task:
          type: Automatic Speech Recognition
          name: automatic-speech-recognition
        dataset:
          name: FLEURS
          type: google/fleurs
          config: bg_bg
          split: test
          args:
            language: bg
        metrics:
          - name: Test WER (Bg)
            type: wer
            value: 12.64
      - task:
          type: Automatic Speech Recognition
          name: automatic-speech-recognition
        dataset:
          name: FLEURS
          type: google/fleurs
          config: cs_cz
          split: test
          args:
            language: cs
        metrics:
          - name: Test WER (Cs)
            type: wer
            value: 11.01
      - task:
          type: Automatic Speech Recognition
          name: automatic-speech-recognition
        dataset:
          name: FLEURS
          type: google/fleurs
          config: da_dk
          split: test
          args:
            language: da
        metrics:
          - name: Test WER (Da)
            type: wer
            value: 18.41
      - task:
          type: Automatic Speech Recognition
          name: automatic-speech-recognition
        dataset:
          name: FLEURS
          type: google/fleurs
          config: de_de
          split: test
          args:
            language: de
        metrics:
          - name: Test WER (De)
            type: wer
            value: 5.04
      - task:
          type: Automatic Speech Recognition
          name: automatic-speech-recognition
        dataset:
          name: FLEURS
          type: google/fleurs
          config: el_gr
          split: test
          args:
            language: el
        metrics:
          - name: Test WER (El)
            type: wer
            value: 20.7
      - task:
          type: Automatic Speech Recognition
          name: automatic-speech-recognition
        dataset:
          name: FLEURS
          type: google/fleurs
          config: en_us
          split: test
          args:
            language: en
        metrics:
          - name: Test WER (En)
            type: wer
            value: 4.85
      - task:
          type: Automatic Speech Recognition
          name: automatic-speech-recognition
        dataset:
          name: FLEURS
          type: google/fleurs
          config: es_419
          split: test
          args:
            language: es
        metrics:
          - name: Test WER (Es)
            type: wer
            value: 3.45
      - task:
          type: Automatic Speech Recognition
          name: automatic-speech-recognition
        dataset:
          name: FLEURS
          type: google/fleurs
          config: et_ee
          split: test
          args:
            language: et
        metrics:
          - name: Test WER (Et)
            type: wer
            value: 17.73
      - task:
          type: Automatic Speech Recognition
          name: automatic-speech-recognition
        dataset:
          name: FLEURS
          type: google/fleurs
          config: fi_fi
          split: test
          args:
            language: fi
        metrics:
          - name: Test WER (Fi)
            type: wer
            value: 13.21
      - task:
          type: Automatic Speech Recognition
          name: automatic-speech-recognition
        dataset:
          name: FLEURS
          type: google/fleurs
          config: fr_fr
          split: test
          args:
            language: fr
        metrics:
          - name: Test WER (Fr)
            type: wer
            value: 5.15
      - task:
          type: Automatic Speech Recognition
          name: automatic-speech-recognition
        dataset:
          name: FLEURS
          type: google/fleurs
          config: hr_hr
          split: test
          args:
            language: hr
        metrics:
          - name: Test WER (Hr)
            type: wer
            value: 12.46
      - task:
          type: Automatic Speech Recognition
          name: automatic-speech-recognition
        dataset:
          name: FLEURS
          type: google/fleurs
          config: hu_hu
          split: test
          args:
            language: hu
        metrics:
          - name: Test WER (Hu)
            type: wer
            value: 15.72
      - task:
          type: Automatic Speech Recognition
          name: automatic-speech-recognition
        dataset:
          name: FLEURS
          type: google/fleurs
          config: it_it
          split: test
          args:
            language: it
        metrics:
          - name: Test WER (It)
            type: wer
            value: 3
      - task:
          type: Automatic Speech Recognition
          name: automatic-speech-recognition
        dataset:
          name: FLEURS
          type: google/fleurs
          config: lt_lt
          split: test
          args:
            language: lt
        metrics:
          - name: Test WER (Lt)
            type: wer
            value: 20.35
      - task:
          type: Automatic Speech Recognition
          name: automatic-speech-recognition
        dataset:
          name: FLEURS
          type: google/fleurs
          config: lv_lv
          split: test
          args:
            language: lv
        metrics:
          - name: Test WER (Lv)
            type: wer
            value: 22.84
      - task:
          type: Automatic Speech Recognition
          name: automatic-speech-recognition
        dataset:
          name: FLEURS
          type: google/fleurs
          config: mt_mt
          split: test
          args:
            language: mt
        metrics:
          - name: Test WER (Mt)
            type: wer
            value: 20.46
      - task:
          type: Automatic Speech Recognition
          name: automatic-speech-recognition
        dataset:
          name: FLEURS
          type: google/fleurs
          config: nl_nl
          split: test
          args:
            language: nl
        metrics:
          - name: Test WER (Nl)
            type: wer
            value: 7.48
      - task:
          type: Automatic Speech Recognition
          name: automatic-speech-recognition
        dataset:
          name: FLEURS
          type: google/fleurs
          config: pl_pl
          split: test
          args:
            language: pl
        metrics:
          - name: Test WER (Pl)
            type: wer
            value: 7.31
      - task:
          type: Automatic Speech Recognition
          name: automatic-speech-recognition
        dataset:
          name: FLEURS
          type: google/fleurs
          config: pt_br
          split: test
          args:
            language: pt
        metrics:
          - name: Test WER (Pt)
            type: wer
            value: 4.76
      - task:
          type: Automatic Speech Recognition
          name: automatic-speech-recognition
        dataset:
          name: FLEURS
          type: google/fleurs
          config: ro_ro
          split: test
          args:
            language: ro
        metrics:
          - name: Test WER (Ro)
            type: wer
            value: 12.44
      - task:
          type: Automatic Speech Recognition
          name: automatic-speech-recognition
        dataset:
          name: FLEURS
          type: google/fleurs
          config: ru_ru
          split: test
          args:
            language: ru
        metrics:
          - name: Test WER (Ru)
            type: wer
            value: 5.51
      - task:
          type: Automatic Speech Recognition
          name: automatic-speech-recognition
        dataset:
          name: FLEURS
          type: google/fleurs
          config: sk_sk
          split: test
          args:
            language: sk
        metrics:
          - name: Test WER (Sk)
            type: wer
            value: 8.82
      - task:
          type: Automatic Speech Recognition
          name: automatic-speech-recognition
        dataset:
          name: FLEURS
          type: google/fleurs
          config: sl_si
          split: test
          args:
            language: sl
        metrics:
          - name: Test WER (Sl)
            type: wer
            value: 24.03
      - task:
          type: Automatic Speech Recognition
          name: automatic-speech-recognition
        dataset:
          name: FLEURS
          type: google/fleurs
          config: sv_se
          split: test
          args:
            language: sv
        metrics:
          - name: Test WER (Sv)
            type: wer
            value: 15.08
      - task:
          type: Automatic Speech Recognition
          name: automatic-speech-recognition
        dataset:
          name: FLEURS
          type: google/fleurs
          config: uk_ua
          split: test
          args:
            language: uk
        metrics:
          - name: Test WER (Uk)
            type: wer
            value: 6.79
      - task:
          type: Automatic Speech Recognition
          name: automatic-speech-recognition
        dataset:
          name: Multilingual LibriSpeech
          type: facebook/multilingual_librispeech
          config: spanish
          split: test
          args:
            language: es
        metrics:
          - name: Test WER (Es)
            type: wer
            value: 4.39
      - task:
          type: Automatic Speech Recognition
          name: automatic-speech-recognition
        dataset:
          name: Multilingual LibriSpeech
          type: facebook/multilingual_librispeech
          config: french
          split: test
          args:
            language: fr
        metrics:
          - name: Test WER (Fr)
            type: wer
            value: 4.97
      - task:
          type: Automatic Speech Recognition
          name: automatic-speech-recognition
        dataset:
          name: Multilingual LibriSpeech
          type: facebook/multilingual_librispeech
          config: italian
          split: test
          args:
            language: it
        metrics:
          - name: Test WER (It)
            type: wer
            value: 10.08
      - task:
          type: Automatic Speech Recognition
          name: automatic-speech-recognition
        dataset:
          name: Multilingual LibriSpeech
          type: facebook/multilingual_librispeech
          config: dutch
          split: test
          args:
            language: nl
        metrics:
          - name: Test WER (Nl)
            type: wer
            value: 12.78
      - task:
          type: Automatic Speech Recognition
          name: automatic-speech-recognition
        dataset:
          name: Multilingual LibriSpeech
          type: facebook/multilingual_librispeech
          config: polish
          split: test
          args:
            language: pl
        metrics:
          - name: Test WER (Pl)
            type: wer
            value: 7.28
      - task:
          type: Automatic Speech Recognition
          name: automatic-speech-recognition
        dataset:
          name: Multilingual LibriSpeech
          type: facebook/multilingual_librispeech
          config: portuguese
          split: test
          args:
            language: pt
        metrics:
          - name: Test WER (Pt)
            type: wer
            value: 7.5
      - task:
          type: Automatic Speech Recognition
          name: automatic-speech-recognition
        dataset:
          name: CoVoST2
          type: covost2
          config: de
          split: test
          args:
            language: de
        metrics:
          - name: Test WER (De)
            type: wer
            value: 4.84
      - task:
          type: Automatic Speech Recognition
          name: automatic-speech-recognition
        dataset:
          name: CoVoST2
          type: covost2
          config: en
          split: test
          args:
            language: en
        metrics:
          - name: Test WER (En)
            type: wer
            value: 6.8
      - task:
          type: Automatic Speech Recognition
          name: automatic-speech-recognition
        dataset:
          name: CoVoST2
          type: covost2
          config: es
          split: test
          args:
            language: es
        metrics:
          - name: Test WER (Es)
            type: wer
            value: 3.41
      - task:
          type: Automatic Speech Recognition
          name: automatic-speech-recognition
        dataset:
          name: CoVoST2
          type: covost2
          config: et
          split: test
          args:
            language: et
        metrics:
          - name: Test WER (Et)
            type: wer
            value: 22.04
      - task:
          type: Automatic Speech Recognition
          name: automatic-speech-recognition
        dataset:
          name: CoVoST2
          type: covost2
          config: fr
          split: test
          args:
            language: fr
        metrics:
          - name: Test WER (Fr)
            type: wer
            value: 6.05
      - task:
          type: Automatic Speech Recognition
          name: automatic-speech-recognition
        dataset:
          name: CoVoST2
          type: covost2
          config: it
          split: test
          args:
            language: it
        metrics:
          - name: Test WER (It)
            type: wer
            value: 3.69
      - task:
          type: Automatic Speech Recognition
          name: automatic-speech-recognition
        dataset:
          name: CoVoST2
          type: covost2
          config: lv
          split: test
          args:
            language: lv
        metrics:
          - name: Test WER (Lv)
            type: wer
            value: 38.36
      - task:
          type: Automatic Speech Recognition
          name: automatic-speech-recognition
        dataset:
          name: CoVoST2
          type: covost2
          config: nl
          split: test
          args:
            language: nl
        metrics:
          - name: Test WER (Nl)
            type: wer
            value: 6.5
      - task:
          type: Automatic Speech Recognition
          name: automatic-speech-recognition
        dataset:
          name: CoVoST2
          type: covost2
          config: pt
          split: test
          args:
            language: pt
        metrics:
          - name: Test WER (Pt)
            type: wer
            value: 3.96
      - task:
          type: Automatic Speech Recognition
          name: automatic-speech-recognition
        dataset:
          name: CoVoST2
          type: covost2
          config: ru
          split: test
          args:
            language: ru
        metrics:
          - name: Test WER (Ru)
            type: wer
            value: 3
      - task:
          type: Automatic Speech Recognition
          name: automatic-speech-recognition
        dataset:
          name: CoVoST2
          type: covost2
          config: sl
          split: test
          args:
            language: sl
        metrics:
          - name: Test WER (Sl)
            type: wer
            value: 31.8
      - task:
          type: Automatic Speech Recognition
          name: automatic-speech-recognition
        dataset:
          name: CoVoST2
          type: covost2
          config: sv
          split: test
          args:
            language: sv
        metrics:
          - name: Test WER (Sv)
            type: wer
            value: 20.16
      - task:
          type: Automatic Speech Recognition
          name: automatic-speech-recognition
        dataset:
          name: CoVoST2
          type: covost2
          config: uk
          split: test
          args:
            language: uk
        metrics:
          - name: Test WER (Uk)
            type: wer
            value: 5.1
metrics:
  - wer

🦜 parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3: Multilingual Speech-to-Text Model

Model architecture | Model size | Language

Description:

parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3 is a 600-million-parameter multilingual automatic speech recognition (ASR) model designed for high-throughput speech-to-text transcription. It extends the parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v2 model by expanding language support from English to 25 European languages. The model automatically detects the language of the audio and transcribes it without requiring additional prompting. It is part of a series of models that leverage the Granary [1, 2] multilingual corpus as their primary training dataset.

🗣️ Try Demo here: https://huggingface.co/spaces/nvidia/parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3

Supported Languages:
Bulgarian (bg), Croatian (hr), Czech (cs), Danish (da), Dutch (nl), English (en), Estonian (et), Finnish (fi), French (fr), German (de), Greek (el), Hungarian (hu), Italian (it), Latvian (lv), Lithuanian (lt), Maltese (mt), Polish (pl), Portuguese (pt), Romanian (ro), Slovak (sk), Slovenian (sl), Spanish (es), Swedish (sv), Russian (ru), Ukrainian (uk)

This model is ready for commercial/non-commercial use.

Key Features:

parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3's key features are built on the foundation of its predecessor, parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v2, and include:

  • Automatic punctuation and capitalization
  • Accurate word-level and segment-level timestamps
  • Long audio transcription, supporting audio up to 24 minutes long with full attention (on A100 80GB) or up to 3 hours with local attention.
  • Released under a permissive CC BY 4.0 license

License/Terms of Use:

GOVERNING TERMS: Use of this model is governed by the CC-BY-4.0 license.

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) Performance

ASR WER Comparison

Figure 1: ASR WER comparison across different models. This does not include Punctuation and Capitalisation errors.


Evaluation Notes

Note 1: The above evaluations are conducted for 24 supported languages, excluding Latvian since seamless-m4t-v2-large and seamless-m4t-medium do not support it.

Note 2: Performance differences may be partly attributed to Portuguese variant differences - our training data uses European Portuguese while most benchmarks use Brazilian Portuguese.

Deployment Geography:

Global

Use Case:

This model serves developers, researchers, academics, and industries building applications that require speech-to-text capabilities, including but not limited to: conversational AI, voice assistants, transcription services, subtitle generation, and voice analytics platforms.

Release Date:

Huggingface 08/14/2025

Model Architecture:

Architecture Type:

FastConformer-TDT

Network Architecture:

  • This model was developed based on FastConformer encoder architecture[3] and TDT decoder[4]
  • This model has 600 million model parameters.

Input:

Input Type(s): 16kHz Audio Input Format(s): .wav and .flac audio formats Input Parameters: 1D (audio signal) Other Properties Related to Input: Monochannel audio

Output:

Output Type(s): Text Output Format: String Output Parameters: 1D (text) Other Properties Related to Output: Punctuations and Capitalizations included.

Our AI models are designed and/or optimized to run on NVIDIA GPU-accelerated systems. By leveraging NVIDIA's hardware (e.g. GPU cores) and software frameworks (e.g., CUDA libraries), the model achieves faster training and inference times compared to CPU-only solutions.

For more information, refer to the NeMo documentation.

How to Use this Model:

To train, fine-tune or play with the model you will need to install NVIDIA NeMo. We recommend you install it after you've installed latest PyTorch version.

pip install -U nemo_toolkit['asr']

The model is available for use in the NeMo toolkit [5], and can be used as a pre-trained checkpoint for inference or for fine-tuning on another dataset.

Automatically instantiate the model

import nemo.collections.asr as nemo_asr
asr_model = nemo_asr.models.ASRModel.from_pretrained(model_name="nvidia/parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3")

Transcribing using Python

First, let's get a sample

wget https://dldata-public.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/2086-149220-0033.wav

Then simply do:

output = asr_model.transcribe(['2086-149220-0033.wav'])
print(output[0].text)

Transcribing with timestamps

To transcribe with timestamps:

output = asr_model.transcribe(['2086-149220-0033.wav'], timestamps=True)
# by default, timestamps are enabled for char, word and segment level
word_timestamps = output[0].timestamp['word'] # word level timestamps for first sample
segment_timestamps = output[0].timestamp['segment'] # segment level timestamps
char_timestamps = output[0].timestamp['char'] # char level timestamps

for stamp in segment_timestamps:
    print(f"{stamp['start']}s - {stamp['end']}s : {stamp['segment']}")

Transcribing long-form audio

#updating self-attention model of fast-conformer encoder
#setting attention left and right context sizes to 256
asr_model.change_attention_model(self_attention_model="rel_pos_local_attn", att_context_size=[256, 256])

output = asr_model.transcribe(['2086-149220-0033.wav'])

print(output[0].text)

Streaming with Parakeet models

To use parakeet models in streaming mode use this script as shown below:

python NeMo/main/examples/asr/asr_chunked_inference/rnnt/speech_to_text_streaming_infer_rnnt.py \
    pretrained_name="nvidia/parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3" \
    model_path=null \
    audio_dir="<optional path to folder of audio files>" \
    dataset_manifest="<optional path to manifest>" \
    output_filename="<optional output filename>" \
    right_context_secs=2.0 \
    chunk_secs=2 \
    left_context_secs=10.0 \
    batch_size=32 \
    clean_groundtruth_text=False

NVIDIA NIM for v2 parakeet model is available at https://build.nvidia.com/nvidia/parakeet-tdt-0_6b-v2.

Software Integration:

Runtime Engine(s):

  • NeMo 2.4

Supported Hardware Microarchitecture Compatibility:

  • NVIDIA Ampere
  • NVIDIA Blackwell
  • NVIDIA Hopper
  • NVIDIA Volta

[Preferred/Supported] Operating System(s):

  • Linux

Hardware Specific Requirements:

Atleast 2GB RAM for model to load. The bigger the RAM, the larger audio input it supports.

Model Version

Current version: parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3. Previous versions can be accessed here.

Training and Evaluation Datasets:

Training

This model was trained using the NeMo toolkit [5], following the strategies below:

  • Initialized from a CTC multilingual checkpoint pretrained on the Granary dataset [1] [2].
  • Trained for 150,000 steps on 128 A100 GPUs.
  • Dataset corpora and languages were balanced using a temperature sampling value of 0.5.
  • Stage 2 fine-tuning was performed for 5,000 steps on 4 A100 GPUs using approximately 7,500 hours of high-quality, human-transcribed data of NeMo ASR Set 3.0.

Training was conducted using this example script and TDT configuration.

During the training, a unified SentencePiece Tokenizer [6] with a vocabulary of 8,192 tokens was used. The unified tokenizer was constructed from the training set transcripts using this script and was optimized across all 25 supported languages.

Training Dataset

The model was trained on the combination of Granary dataset's ASR subset and in-house dataset NeMo ASR Set 3.0:

  • 10,000 hours from human-transcribed NeMo ASR Set 3.0, including:

    • LibriSpeech (960 hours)
    • Fisher Corpus
    • National Speech Corpus Part 1
    • VCTK
    • Europarl-ASR
    • Multilingual LibriSpeech
    • Mozilla Common Voice (v7.0)
    • AMI
  • 660,000 hours of pseudo-labeled data from Granary [1] [2], including:

All transcriptions preserve punctuation and capitalization. The Granary dataset will be made publicly available after presentation at Interspeech 2025.

Data Collection Method by dataset

  • Hybrid: Automated, Human

Labeling Method by dataset

  • Hybrid: Synthetic, Human

Properties:

  • Noise robust data from various sources
  • Single channel, 16kHz sampled data

Evaluation Datasets

For multilingual ASR performance evaluation:

  • Fleurs [10]
  • MLS [11]
  • CoVoST [12]

For English ASR performance evaluation:

  • Hugging Face Open ASR Leaderboard [13] datasets

Data Collection Method by dataset

  • Human

Labeling Method by dataset

  • Human

Properties:

  • All are commonly used for benchmarking English ASR systems.
  • Audio data is typically processed into a 16kHz mono channel format for ASR evaluation, consistent with benchmarks like the Open ASR Leaderboard.

Performance

Multilingual ASR

The tables below summarizes the WER (%) using a Transducer decoder with greedy decoding (without an external language model):

Language Fleurs MLS CoVoST
Average WER ↓ 11.97% 7.83% 11.98%
bg 12.64% - -
cs 11.01% - -
da 18.41% - -
de 5.04% - 4.84%
el 20.70% - -
en 4.85% - 6.80%
es 3.45% 4.39% 3.41%
et 17.73% - 22.04%
fi 13.21% - -
fr 5.15% 4.97% 6.05%
hr 12.46% - -
hu 15.72% - -
it 3.00% 10.08% 3.69%
lt 20.35% - -
lv 22.84% - 38.36%
mt 20.46% - -
nl 7.48% 12.78% 6.50%
pl 7.31% 7.28% -
pt 4.76% 7.50% 3.96%
ro 12.44% - -
ru 5.51% - 3.00%
sk 8.82% - -
sl 24.03% - 31.80%
sv 15.08% - 20.16%
uk 6.79% - 5.10%

Note: WERs are calculated after removing Punctuation and Capitalization from reference and predicted text.

Huggingface Open-ASR-Leaderboard

Model Avg WER AMI Earnings-22 GigaSpeech LS test-clean LS test-other SPGI Speech TEDLIUM-v3 VoxPopuli
parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3 6.34% 11.31% 11.42% 9.59% 1.93% 3.59% 3.97% 2.75% 6.14%

Additional evaluation details are available on the Hugging Face ASR Leaderboard.[13]

Noise Robustness

Performance across different Signal-to-Noise Ratios (SNR) using MUSAN music and noise samples [14]:

SNR Level Avg WER AMI Earnings GigaSpeech LS test-clean LS test-other SPGI Tedlium VoxPopuli Relative Change
Clean 6.34% 11.31% 11.42% 9.59% 1.93% 3.59% 3.97% 2.75% 6.14% -
SNR 10 7.12% 13.99% 11.79% 9.96% 2.15% 4.55% 4.45% 3.05% 6.99% -12.28%
SNR 5 8.23% 17.59% 13.01% 10.69% 2.62% 6.05% 5.23% 3.33% 7.31% -29.81%
SNR 0 11.66% 24.44% 17.34% 13.60% 4.82% 10.38% 8.41% 5.39% 8.91% -83.97%
SNR -5 19.88% 34.91% 26.92% 21.41% 12.21% 19.98% 16.96% 11.36% 15.30% -213.64%

References

[1] Granary: Speech Recognition and Translation Dataset in 25 European Languages

[2] NVIDIA Granary Dataset Card

[3] Fast Conformer with Linearly Scalable Attention for Efficient Speech Recognition

[4] Efficient Sequence Transduction by Jointly Predicting Tokens and Durations

[5] NVIDIA NeMo Toolkit

[6] Google Sentencepiece Tokenizer

[7] Youtube-Commons

[8] MOSEL: 950,000 Hours of Speech Data for Open-Source Speech Foundation Model Training on EU Languages

[9] YODAS: Youtube-Oriented Dataset for Audio and Speech

[10] FLEURS: Few-shot Learning Evaluation of Universal Representations of Speech

[11] MLS: A Large-Scale Multilingual Dataset for Speech Research

[12] CoVoST 2 and Massively Multilingual Speech-to-Text Translation

[13] HuggingFace ASR Leaderboard

[14] MUSAN: A Music, Speech, and Noise Corpus

Inference:

Engine:

  • NVIDIA NeMo

Test Hardware:

  • NVIDIA A10
  • NVIDIA A100
  • NVIDIA A30
  • NVIDIA H100
  • NVIDIA L4
  • NVIDIA L40
  • NVIDIA Turing T4
  • NVIDIA Volta V100

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Bias:

Field Response
Participation considerations from adversely impacted groups protected classes in model design and testing None
Measures taken to mitigate against unwanted bias None

Explainability:

Field Response
Intended Domain Speech to Text Transcription
Model Type FastConformer
Intended Users This model is intended for developers, researchers, academics, and industries building conversational based applications.
Output Text
Describe how the model works Speech input is encoded into embeddings and passed into conformer-based model and output a text response.
Name the adversely impacted groups this has been tested to deliver comparable outcomes regardless of Not Applicable
Technical Limitations & Mitigation Transcripts may be not 100% accurate. Accuracy varies based on language and characteristics of input audio (Domain, Use Case, Accent, Noise, Speech Type, Context of speech, etc.)
Verified to have met prescribed NVIDIA quality standards Yes
Performance Metrics Word Error Rate
Potential Known Risks If a word is not trained in the language model and not presented in vocabulary, the word is not likely to be recognized. Not recommended for word-for-word/incomplete sentences as accuracy varies based on the context of input text
Licensing GOVERNING TERMS: Use of this model is governed by the CC-BY-4.0 license.

Privacy:

Field Response
Generatable or reverse engineerable personal data? None
Personal data used to create this model? None
Is there provenance for all datasets used in training? Yes
Does data labeling (annotation, metadata) comply with privacy laws? Yes
Is data compliant with data subject requests for data correction or removal, if such a request was made? No, not possible with externally-sourced data.
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Safety:

Field Response
Model Application(s) Speech to Text Transcription
Describe the life critical impact None
Use Case Restrictions Abide by CC-BY-4.0 License
Model and dataset restrictions The Principle of least privilege (PoLP) is applied limiting access for dataset generation and model development. Restrictions enforce dataset access during training, and dataset license constraints adhered to.