- Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe is an open-source instruction-following speech model covering transcription, translation, and speaker recognition.
- Uses sparse activation architecture (30B total/4B active) enabling efficient inference on a single GPU.
- Released alongside the Granary v2 dataset (844k hours of audio) and tools for vertical domain adaptation.
AI CURATED HOT STORY · 10/28/2026
NVIDIA Open-Sources Nemotron 3.5 Voice Model and Data Pipeline
NVIDIA has officially open-sourced the Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe multimodal voice model and the Granary v2 data pipeline, significantly lowering the barrier to high-quality voice AI development. The model supports transcription, translation, speaker diarization, and audio Q&A across 40 languages, achieving leading results in industry benchmarks while handling recordings up to one hour long with support for up to 8 speakers.
Technically, Nemotron 3.5 utilizes a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture with 30B total parameters but only 4B active, enabling efficient inference on single GPUs or edge devices like the Jetson AGX Thor. The accompanying Granary v2 provides an 844,000-hour audio dataset, fine-tuning recipes, and data processing tools, allowing developers to quickly adapt the model to vertical scenarios such as healthcare and meetings via prompts.
This full-stack open-source strategy offers end-to-end capabilities from raw audio to customized applications, breaking previous limitations of closed-source or costly deployment. It accelerates enterprise-grade voice interaction adoption and lays the groundwork for smarter, privacy-preserving local voice solutions.
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Total 4 reports · Latest first- The DecoderT2·78 pts
- Hacker News AIT2·78 pts
- Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe is an open-source ASR model supporting 40 languages with speaker attribution, translation, and audio Q&A capabilities.
- The release includes the Granary v2 open-source data pipeline and fine-tuning recipes, lowering the barrier for model customization.
- It achieved top leaderboard results in relevant benchmarks, demonstrating competitive performance.
- TechCrunch AIT2·78 pts
- Nemotron 3.5 is an open-weight model supporting transcription in 40 languages and translation between English and 31 others.
- The 30B parameter model claims to run on single-chip devices like Jetson AGX Thor or DGX Spark.
- It handles recordings up to one hour long and distinguishes up to 8 speakers, but does not support live streaming.
- Hugging Face BlogT1·78 pts
- Nemotron 3.5 integrates transcription, speaker diarization, translation, and audio Q&A with state-of-the-art performance.
- Granary v2 provides a complete data pipeline and fine-tuning recipes, enabling rapid adaptation to vertical domains via prompting.
- The full-stack open-source strategy (model + pipeline) offers developers end-to-end capabilities from raw audio to customized applications.