NVIDIA Parakeet TDT 0.6B v2 is a 600M-parameter English ASR model that topped the Hugging Face Open ASR leaderboard in May 2025 with a 6.05% WER, capable of transcribing an hour of audio in a single second.
A strong 0.6B-parameter dense audio model from NVIDIA. Treat the modality benchmarks above as the leading indicator of fit — composite scoring across modalities is still maturing. On the rise in download charts.
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