NVIDIA’s Parakeet 2: What it Means for Research and Subtitling

Author: Luis Damián Moreno García Parakeet 2, officially known as Parakeet-TDT-0.6b-V2, was recently released. It is currently on the top of Hugging Face’s Open ASR Leaderboard (https://huggingface.co/spaces/hf-audio/open_asr_leaderboard), with a Word Error Rate (WER) of only 6.05%. This means few errors, which can help researchers better transcribe interviews and focus groups, and do less…