Fact · Speech recognition
12.78percent word error rate
NVIDIA Parakeet TDT 0.6B v3 had a word error rate of 12.78 percent on the Multilingual LibriSpeech Dutch 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 | ... | **nl** | 7.48% | 12.78% | 6.50% |”
parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3 model card (raw README), NVIDIA, Hugging Face (NVIDIA model card), 2025, Multilingual ASR table, MLS column, nl 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, MLS Dutch: 12.78 percent.
- System
- NVIDIA Parakeet TDT 0.6B v3
- Kind
- Open model
- Test set
- Multilingual LibriSpeech
- Language
- Dutch
- Speech
- Clean read speech
- Year
- 2025