Voice AI in Vogue: Nvidia Releases New Open Transcription Model
Nvidia open transcription is now live: Nemotron 3.5 ASR Streaming 0.6B transcribes 40 language-locales in real time, sustains up to 240 concurrent streams per H100 at 80ms latency, and ships under an OpenMDW-1.1 license for commercial use. We unpack the cache-aware FastConformer-RNNT architecture, the three language tiers, the Granary-v2 data push behind it, how it compares with Parakeet, Canary and Whisper, and the pilots voice teams should run first.
