FastConformer

NVIDIA's Nemotron-3-Nano-Omni-30B model, when distributed as a GGUF, often lacks audio and video functionality because popular GGUF repos ship mmproj files containing only the vision tower, omitting t…

A new study from arXiv shows that multilingual encoder initialization benefits streaming automatic speech recognition (ASR) only at low target-language data scales, with the advantage decaying as data…

NVIDIA released Nemotron 3.5 ASR, a 600M-parameter streaming speech recognition model that transcribes 40 language-locales in real time from a single checkpoint. The model uses a cache-aware FastConfo…