Fact · Speech recognition
6.32percent average WER
On the Open ASR Leaderboard's English short-form tests, NVIDIA Parakeet TDT 0.6B v3 had an average word error rate of 6.32 percent, with an RTFx of 3,330.
Checked against its source on October 17, 2026
In the source's own words
“NVIDIA Parakeet TDT 0.6B v3 Yes 6.32 3330 FastConformer”
Open ASR Leaderboard: Towards Reproducible and Transparent Multilingual and Long-Form Speech Recognition Evaluation, Hugging Face and collaborators, arXiv, 2025, Table 3, short-form English.
Open the original- What it measures
- The row shows the open-source flag, average WER, RTFx, encoder and decoder, and language count for this model.
- What it does not show
- Average over the leaderboard's English datasets, with normalized text, so punctuation and fillers are not scored. The live table may have newer numbers.