NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe and Granary v2: Intelligent Multilingual Transcription You Can Prompt and Adapt

Hugging Face 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. A transcript can capture every spoken word and still leave users or applications wondering who said what, how to translate it, or how to format domain-specific jargon.

Multilingual calls, fast-paced meetings, and medical dictation each need different output: a translation, speaker labels, or correctly spelled medical terms. NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe is an open-weight, promptable model that turns recorded speech into useful text, now available on Hugging Face and ModelScope. It brings transcription, speaker attribution (diarization), translation, and audio question answering into one checkpoint: it transcribes 40 languages, translates 31 of them to or from English, and attributes speakers in 13. It handles recordings up to an hour long and labels up to eight speakers. Developers can guide output with natural language, choose where their audio is processed, and adapt recognition to domain vocabulary and accents. Transcribe is first among open-weight models on the Hugging Face Open ASR Leaderboard for English and sits on Artificial Analysis’s accuracy–active-parameter frontier. For speaker attribution, it posts the lowest error rate on David AI’s 21-language diarization leaderboard and ranks first in VoiceArena’s 14-system comparison. It runs on a single NVIDIA GPU, from DGX Spark to Blackwell data-center systems. Granary v2’s multilingual data (available on Hugging Face and ModelScope) and reusable curation pipeline, together with NeMo Speech fine-tuning tools, extend prompt-level control to training: developers can define the written form they need and adapt the model to the speech their applications encounter. In a medical case study, fine-tuning cut word error rate (WER) on held-out speakers by 45.8% relative to the best prompt. The same checkpoint can turn one meeting recording into different outputs, depending on the instruction: Experience the model in action in the video below, where it tackles a classic scene from the 1940 screwball comedy His Girl Friday—a film famous for its rapid-fire, heavily overlapping dialogue. Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe captions a scene from His Girl Friday (1940) and labels speakers, including overlapping dialogue. For unfamiliar terms, try context before training. In a healthcare setting, for example: Transcribe this medical discussion in the original language. Possible terms: HbA1c, metformin.