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canary-1b-flash model card (raw README)
NVIDIA, Hugging Face (NVIDIA model card), n.d.
Read the originalRead on October 19, 2026
- What it is
- NVIDIA's model card for Canary 1B Flash, read from its raw README. It gives English WER on the Open ASR Leaderboard datasets, and WER on Mozilla Common Voice 16.1 and Multilingual LibriSpeech for English, German, Spanish and French.
- How much weight it carries
- Self-reported by NVIDIA, the model developer. The card uses its own text normalization and decoding, so its figures are not directly comparable with other vendors' full-transcript scores. Compare only within the same test set.
Facts taken from this source
- NVIDIA Canary 1B Flash had a word error rate of 13.11 percent on the AMI meetings test set in the Open ASR Leaderboard table.
“| **Version** | **Model** | **RTFx** | **AMI** | **GigaSpeech** | **LS Clean** | **LS Other** | **Earnings22** | **SPGISpech** | **Tedlium** | **Voxpopuli** | ... | nemo-main | canary-1b-flash | 1045.75 | 13.11 | 9.85 | 1.48 | 2.87 | 12.79 | 1.95 | 3.12 | 5.63 |” (Open ASR Leaderboard table, AMI meetings column)
- NVIDIA Canary 1B Flash had a word error rate of 12.79 percent on the Earnings-22 test set in the Open ASR Leaderboard table.
“| **Version** | **Model** | **RTFx** | **AMI** | **GigaSpeech** | **LS Clean** | **LS Other** | **Earnings22** | **SPGISpech** | **Tedlium** | **Voxpopuli** | ... | nemo-main | canary-1b-flash | 1045.75 | 13.11 | 9.85 | 1.48 | 2.87 | 12.79 | 1.95 | 3.12 | 5.63 |” (Open ASR Leaderboard table, Earnings-22 column)
- NVIDIA Canary 1B Flash had a word error rate of 9.85 percent on the GigaSpeech test set in the Open ASR Leaderboard table.
“| **Version** | **Model** | **RTFx** | **AMI** | **GigaSpeech** | **LS Clean** | **LS Other** | **Earnings22** | **SPGISpech** | **Tedlium** | **Voxpopuli** | ... | nemo-main | canary-1b-flash | 1045.75 | 13.11 | 9.85 | 1.48 | 2.87 | 12.79 | 1.95 | 3.12 | 5.63 |” (Open ASR Leaderboard table, GigaSpeech column)
- NVIDIA Canary 1B Flash had a word error rate of 1.48 percent on the LibriSpeech test-clean test set in the Open ASR Leaderboard table.
“| **Version** | **Model** | **RTFx** | **AMI** | **GigaSpeech** | **LS Clean** | **LS Other** | **Earnings22** | **SPGISpech** | **Tedlium** | **Voxpopuli** | ... | nemo-main | canary-1b-flash | 1045.75 | 13.11 | 9.85 | 1.48 | 2.87 | 12.79 | 1.95 | 3.12 | 5.63 |” (Open ASR Leaderboard table, LibriSpeech test-clean column)
- NVIDIA Canary 1B Flash had a word error rate of 2.87 percent on the LibriSpeech test-other test set in the Open ASR Leaderboard table.
“| **Version** | **Model** | **RTFx** | **AMI** | **GigaSpeech** | **LS Clean** | **LS Other** | **Earnings22** | **SPGISpech** | **Tedlium** | **Voxpopuli** | ... | nemo-main | canary-1b-flash | 1045.75 | 13.11 | 9.85 | 1.48 | 2.87 | 12.79 | 1.95 | 3.12 | 5.63 |” (Open ASR Leaderboard table, LibriSpeech test-other column)
- NVIDIA Canary 1B Flash had a word error rate of 4.09 percent on Common Voice German.
“WER on [MCV-16.1](https://commonvoice.mozilla.org/en/datasets) test set: | **Version** | **Model** | **En** | **De** | **Es** | **Fr** | ... | nemo-main | canary-1b-flash | 6.99 | 4.09 | 3.62 | 6.15 |” (WER table, de column)
- NVIDIA Canary 1B Flash had a word error rate of 6.99 percent on Common Voice English.
“WER on [MCV-16.1](https://commonvoice.mozilla.org/en/datasets) test set: | **Version** | **Model** | **En** | **De** | **Es** | **Fr** | ... | nemo-main | canary-1b-flash | 6.99 | 4.09 | 3.62 | 6.15 |” (WER table, en column)
- NVIDIA Canary 1B Flash had a word error rate of 3.62 percent on Common Voice Spanish.
“WER on [MCV-16.1](https://commonvoice.mozilla.org/en/datasets) test set: | **Version** | **Model** | **En** | **De** | **Es** | **Fr** | ... | nemo-main | canary-1b-flash | 6.99 | 4.09 | 3.62 | 6.15 |” (WER table, es column)
- NVIDIA Canary 1B Flash had a word error rate of 6.15 percent on Common Voice French.
“WER on [MCV-16.1](https://commonvoice.mozilla.org/en/datasets) test set: | **Version** | **Model** | **En** | **De** | **Es** | **Fr** | ... | nemo-main | canary-1b-flash | 6.99 | 4.09 | 3.62 | 6.15 |” (WER table, fr column)
- NVIDIA Canary 1B Flash had a word error rate of 4.36 percent on Multilingual LibriSpeech German.
“WER on [MLS](https://huggingface.co/datasets/facebook/multilingual_librispeech) test set: | **Version** | **Model** | **De** | **Es** | **Fr** | ... | nemo-main | canary-1b-flash | 4.36 | 2.69 | 4.47 |” (WER table, de column)
- NVIDIA Canary 1B Flash had a word error rate of 2.69 percent on Multilingual LibriSpeech Spanish.
“WER on [MLS](https://huggingface.co/datasets/facebook/multilingual_librispeech) test set: | **Version** | **Model** | **De** | **Es** | **Fr** | ... | nemo-main | canary-1b-flash | 4.36 | 2.69 | 4.47 |” (WER table, es column)
- NVIDIA Canary 1B Flash had a word error rate of 4.47 percent on Multilingual LibriSpeech French.
“WER on [MLS](https://huggingface.co/datasets/facebook/multilingual_librispeech) test set: | **Version** | **Model** | **De** | **Es** | **Fr** | ... | nemo-main | canary-1b-flash | 4.36 | 2.69 | 4.47 |” (WER table, fr column)
- NVIDIA Canary 1B Flash had a word error rate of 1.95 percent on the SPGI Speech test set in the Open ASR Leaderboard table.
“| **Version** | **Model** | **RTFx** | **AMI** | **GigaSpeech** | **LS Clean** | **LS Other** | **Earnings22** | **SPGISpech** | **Tedlium** | **Voxpopuli** | ... | nemo-main | canary-1b-flash | 1045.75 | 13.11 | 9.85 | 1.48 | 2.87 | 12.79 | 1.95 | 3.12 | 5.63 |” (Open ASR Leaderboard table, SPGI Speech column)
- NVIDIA Canary 1B Flash had a word error rate of 3.12 percent on the TED-LIUM test set in the Open ASR Leaderboard table.
“| **Version** | **Model** | **RTFx** | **AMI** | **GigaSpeech** | **LS Clean** | **LS Other** | **Earnings22** | **SPGISpech** | **Tedlium** | **Voxpopuli** | ... | nemo-main | canary-1b-flash | 1045.75 | 13.11 | 9.85 | 1.48 | 2.87 | 12.79 | 1.95 | 3.12 | 5.63 |” (Open ASR Leaderboard table, TED-LIUM column)
- NVIDIA Canary 1B Flash had a word error rate of 5.63 percent on the VoxPopuli test set in the Open ASR Leaderboard table.
“| **Version** | **Model** | **RTFx** | **AMI** | **GigaSpeech** | **LS Clean** | **LS Other** | **Earnings22** | **SPGISpech** | **Tedlium** | **Voxpopuli** | ... | nemo-main | canary-1b-flash | 1045.75 | 13.11 | 9.85 | 1.48 | 2.87 | 12.79 | 1.95 | 3.12 | 5.63 |” (Open ASR Leaderboard table, VoxPopuli column)