Fact · Speech recognition
12.64percent word error rate
NVIDIA Parakeet TDT 0.6B v3 had a word error rate of 12.64 percent on the FLEURS Bulgarian test.
Quote found word for word on the live source, last checked October 19, 2026
In the source's own words
“| Language | Fleurs | MLS | CoVoST | ... | **bg** | 12.64% | - | - |”
parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3 model card (raw README), NVIDIA, Hugging Face (NVIDIA model card), 2025, Multilingual ASR table, Fleurs column, bg 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, FLEURS Bulgarian: 12.64 percent.
- System
- NVIDIA Parakeet TDT 0.6B v3
- Kind
- Open model
- Test set
- FLEURS
- Language
- Bulgarian
- Speech
- Clean read speech
- Year
- 2025