Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe 30B-A4B
Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe 30B-A4B is an open-weight, offline speech and audio model that turns recordings and text instructions into text responses. It supports transcription, speech translation, speaker-attributed transcription, timestamps, language identification, and audio question answering.
What it does
Use it to transcribe, translate, identify speakers in, or ask questions about recordings, including recordings up to one hour.
- Availability
- Checkpoint and live demo linked on Hugging Face
- Pricing model
- Not established
- Deployment
- Offline; example serves on one H100 80 GB
- Privacy
- Not established
- Licence
- OpenMDW-1.1
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Evidence
5 claims- Supports transcription in 40 languages and recordings up to one hour. [1] [2]
**Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe is an open-weight, offline speech and audio model** for transcription in 40 languages, with support for recordings up to one hour and a 65,536-token context.
Hugging Face. Quoted text is outside CC BY 4.0 and keeps its original rights. - Supports speech translation, speaker-attributed transcription, timestamp prediction, language identification, and audio question answering. [1]
NVIDIA developed this [Speech-Augmented Language Model (SALM)](https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.09424) for multilingual transcription, speech translation, contextual transcription, speaker-attributed transcription, rich transcription, timestamp prediction, language identification, and audio question answering.
Hugging Face. Quoted text is outside CC BY 4.0 and keeps its original rights. - The model is described as offline and the example deployment uses one H100 80 GB. [1]
The example below serves this checkpoint on **one H100 80 GB** with vLLM 0.32.0 and the latest NeMo Speech main branch.
Hugging Face. Quoted text is outside CC BY 4.0 and keeps its original rights. - The model is released as open weights in BF16; FP8 and NVFP4 variants are also available. [1]
| **Precision** | BF16 (full-precision reference weights); [FP8](https://huggingface.co/nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Transcribe-30B-A4B-FP8) and [NVFP4](https://huggingface.co/nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Transcribe-30B-A4B-NVFP4) variants are available |
Hugging Face. Quoted text is outside CC BY 4.0 and keeps its original rights. - The model is ready for commercial or non-commercial use under the OpenMDW-1.1 license. [1]
This model is ready for commercial or non-commercial use.
Hugging Face. Quoted text is outside CC BY 4.0 and keeps its original rights.
Sources
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https://huggingface.co/nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Transcribe-30B-A4B
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https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/28/voice-ai-in-vogue-nvidia-releases-new-open-transcription-model/
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