NVIDIA releases open-source transcription model Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe
What happened
On 28 October 2026, NVIDIA released the open-weight speech model Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe, making it available on Hugging Face and ModelScope. According to a Hugging Face blog post, the model combines multilingual transcription, speaker diarisation, translation and audio question answering in a single checkpoint. TechCrunch reported the same day that the model can transcribe audio in up to 40 languages, translate between 31 languages and English, handle recordings up to one hour long and distinguish up to eight speakers; NVIDIA says it outperforms competitors on benchmarks including the Hugging Face Open ASR Leaderboard. NVIDIA's blog also announced several updates for RTX Spark laptops the same day, including support for the model, support for Liquid AI's LFM3 series models, and a control in the NVIDIA App for allocating GPU resources between foreground applications and background agents. The model has now been released; the reports did not mention third-party verification.
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Developments
- Oct 28 23:00 · 1 reportsNVIDIA releases Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe speech model and RTX Spark updatesNVIDIA Blog：NVIDIA RTX Spark Windows Laptops Gain New Models, Agent Tools and Games
- Oct 28 22:58 · 2 reportsNvidia releases open-source transcription model Nemotron 3.5 TranscribeHugging Face Blog：NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe and Granary v2: Intelligent Multilingual Transcription You Can Prompt and Adapt
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- NVIDIA BlogNVIDIA RTX Spark Windows Laptops Gain New Models, Agent Tools and Games
NVIDIA RTX Spark powers thin and light laptops built for everything that developers, creators and gamers do. RTX Spark laptops are now available from ASUS, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Microsoft and MSI.
- TechCrunch · AIVoice AI in vogue: Nvidia releases new open transcription model
Nvidia just released a free speech-to-text model that can transcribe up to 40 languages, but it only works on recordings, not live audio, so it’s a big step for meeting and medical transcription tools while still leaving real-time use to rivals like ElevenLabs.
- Hugging Face BlogSelectedNVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe and Granary v2: Intelligent Multilingual Transcription You Can Prompt and Adapt
One open model for multilingual transcription, speaker attribution, translation, and audio Q&A, with top leaderboard results, plus the open Granary v2 data pipeline and fine-tuning recipes to adapt it.
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