Fact · Speech recognition
11.98percent word error rate
NVIDIA Parakeet TDT 0.6B v3 had an average word error rate of 11.98 percent on the CoVoST 2 test across its European languages.
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In the source's own words
“| Language | Fleurs | MLS | CoVoST | ... | **Average WER ↓** | *11.97%* | *7.83%* | *11.98%* |”
parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3 model card (raw README), NVIDIA, Hugging Face (NVIDIA model card), 2025, Multilingual ASR table, CoVoST column, average row.
Open the original- What it measures
- The model card's multilingual table uses a Transducer decoder with greedy decoding and no external language model. Punctuation and capitalization are removed from the reference and predicted text before scoring.
- What it does not show
- NVIDIA's own run, scored without punctuation or capitalization, so it is not a full-transcript score.
In the data
A row of Speech Recognition Accuracy: Word Error Rates, as Parakeet TDT v3, CoVoST 2: 11.98 percent.
- System
- NVIDIA Parakeet TDT 0.6B v3
- Kind
- Open model
- Test set
- CoVoST 2
- Language
- European languages (average)
- Year
- 2025