NVIDIA has released Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe, an open-source speech-to-text model that ranks highly on the Hugging Face Open ASR Leaderboard. The model, available under the permissive OpenMDW-1.1 license, can be used commercially and offers several free access methods, including a demo space on Hugging Face and downloadable weights for self-hosting. While hosted APIs from providers like DeepInfra and OpenRouter are paid, the model itself provides advanced features such as multi-language transcription, speaker diarization, and translation capabilities. AI
IMPACT This release provides a high-performing, commercially viable open-source alternative for speech-to-text tasks, potentially impacting existing paid services.
RANK_REASON NVIDIA released a new model with performance claims on a public leaderboard. [lever_c_demoted from frontier_release: ic=2 ai=1.0]
- Azure Speech
- DeepInfra
- ElevenLabs Scribe v2
- Hugging Face Open ASR Leaderboard
- Mamba-2
- Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe
- Nvidia
- NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Transcribe-30B-A4B
- OpenMDW-1.1
- OpenRouter
- Otter AI
- transformer
- Zoom Scribe v2 Pro
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