Model overview
NVIDIA NeMo Canary-Qwen-2.5B is an English speech recognition model that achieves state-of-the art performance on multiple English speech benchmarks. With 2.5 billion parameters and running at 418 RTFx, Canary-Qwen-2.5B supports automatic speech-to-text recognition (ASR) in English with punctuation and capitalization (PnC). The model works in two modes: as a transcription tool (ASR mode) and as an LLM (LLM mode). In ASR mode, the model is only capable of transcribing the speech into text, but does not retain any LLM-specific skills such as reasoning. In LLM mode, the model retains all of the original LLM capabilities, which can be used to post-process the transcript, e.g. summarize it or answer questions about it. In LLM mode, the model does not "understand" the raw audio anymore - only its transcript. This model is ready for commercial use. Canary-Qwen-2.5B is released under the CC-BY-4.0 license. By using this model, you are agreeing to the terms and conditions of the license. For documentation, deployment guides, enterprise-ready APIs, and the latest open models—including Nemotron and other cutting-edge speech, translation, and generative AI—visit the NVIDIA Developer Portal at developer.nvidia.com. Join the community to access tools, support, and resources to accelerate your development with NVIDIA’s NeMo, Riva, NIM, and foundation models.
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