Nvidia released a free model that turns recordings into text in up to 40 languages, which could improve meeting and medical note apps. It does not handle live audio.
Nvidia on Wednesday released Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe, a free model that turns recorded speech into written text in up to 40 languages. It is "open-weight," which means developers can download it and build it into their own apps. It is not a consumer app itself.
Nvidia says it beats rivals on benchmarks, including Hugging Face's Open ASR Leaderboard. That is the company's claim. Nvidia also released version 2 of Granary, its open-source speech dataset, and says developers can tune apps to recognize an industry's jargon in each language.
The target is developers building meeting and medical transcription tools. Nvidia says the 30-billion-parameter model can run on a single chip, from the Jetson AGX Thor robotics controller to Blackwell datacenter chips.
It works only on recorded audio, not live streams. Real-time use is left to others, such as ElevenLabs, which just launched Realtime for voice agents. Mistral and Salesforce also released voice models recently. The material does not say which apps will adopt Nemotron 3.5 or when.
If a transcription tool you use needs live captions, this model will not supply them, but recorded meetings and notes may get better.
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