Nvidia debuts Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe open-weight model and Granary v2 speech dataset
Nvidia released Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe, an open-weight AI model for multilingual audio transcription and translation, alongside the open-source Granary v2 speech dataset. The model is described as leaderboard-winning, marking Nvidia's entry into the open speech AI space.
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Kyt Dotson / SiliconANGLE : Nvidia debuts Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe, an open-weight model for multilingual audio transcription and translation, and Granary v2, its open-source speech dataset — Nvidia Corp. today released a leaderboard-winning open artificial intelligence model for multilingual audio transcription and translation …

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