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NVIDIANeMo ASR familyCurrentSpeech and audioReleased 14 Aug 2025

NVIDIA Parakeet / Canary / Nemotron Speech ASR (open)

Model idnvidia/parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3

PricePrice not published

Checked29 September 2026

Where it stands

90newer speech and audio models since its release

The 5 newest are listed. All speech and audio models

After it from NVIDIA
NVIDIA MagpieTTS Multilingual 357M11 Dec 2025
Weights
Weights are public. Licence: cc-by-4.0; NVIDIA Open Model License / OpenMDW. See the licence for commercial terms.

How to call it

6 ways to use NVIDIA Parakeet / Canary / Nemotron Speech ASR (open), with the model id each provider expects.

Providers, model ids, endpoints and docs for NVIDIA Parakeet / Canary / Nemotron Speech ASR (open)
ProviderModel idEndpointDocs
Hugging Face nvidia/parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3 huggingface.co
Hugging Face nvidia/canary-qwen-2.5b huggingface.co
Hugging Face nvidia/parakeet-unified-en-0.6b huggingface.co
Hugging Face nvidia/nemotron-speech-streaming-en-0.6b huggingface.co
Hugging Face nvidia/nemotron-3.5-asr-streaming-0.6b huggingface.co
NVIDIA NIM / build.nvidia.com build.nvidia.com

Pricing

Price not published.

No price source linked. Checked 29 September 2026.

Specs

Input
Audio
Output
Text
Context window
Not published
Max output
Not published
Open weights
Yes
Licence
cc-by-4.0 (Parakeet TDT v3, Canary-Qwen); NVIDIA Open Model License / OpenMDW (2026 models)
Released
14 August 2025
Status
Current
Type
Speech and audio

What stands out

What its maker marketed at launch, and what people found later, each with its source.

  • Parakeet TDT 0.6B v3: 25 European languages, very high throughput

    600M FastConformer-TDT with auto language ID, punctuation, word timestamps, up to 24 min (3 h with local attention); 6.34% avg WER on Open ASR Leaderboard; trained on the Granary dataset.

    Source: huggingface.co

  • Canary-Qwen-2.5B speech-augmented LLM

    FastConformer encoder + Qwen LLM (SALM); 5.63% mean WER topped the HF Open ASR Leaderboard at release (2025-07-17); can summarize/answer questions about the transcript. English, max 40 s clips.

    Source: huggingface.co

  • Cache-aware streaming ASR, 80-1120 ms chunks

    Nemotron Speech Streaming EN 0.6B (Jan/Mar 2026) and Nemotron 3.5 ASR Streaming 0.6B (June 2026, 40 language-locales) switch latency at inference without retraining; Parakeet-unified-en-0.6B (2026-04-07) does both offline (5.91% WER) and streaming down to 160 ms.

    Source: huggingface.co

Notes

One file for NVIDIA’s open ASR family. Also canary-1b-v2 (European ASR + translation) and parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v2 (English, NIM). Nemotron 3.5 ASR HF card shows a garbled date; June 2026 per NVIDIA/press. NVIDIA’s open TTS: magpie_tts_multilingual_357m. Full-duplex model: see nemotron-voicechat.

Sources: https://huggingface.co/collections/nvidia/nemotron-speech , https://huggingface.co/nvidia/parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3 , https://huggingface.co/nvidia/canary-qwen-2.5b