NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe tops speech benchmark at 2.48% WER on real calls

rdesh26 · x · 2026-10-29

A team benchmarking speech-to-text models found NVIDIA's Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe has the lowest word error rate on real phone calls among 20 models tested: 2.48%.

The benchmark scores real calls separately from clean test clips, using conversation recordings licensed from Ocular — closer to production conditions than standard clean test sets.

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