{"slug":"nvidia-canary-qwen-2-5b","name":"NVIDIA Canary-Qwen 2.5B","domain":"nvidia.com","best_rank":3,"categories":1,"entries":[{"slug":"best-open-source-speech-to-text-model","title":"Best open-source speech-to-text model","rank":3,"of":11,"score":8,"appearances":3,"modelRanks":{"ChatGPT":5,"Claude":4,"Grok":1},"reason":"Tops or near-tops Hugging Face Open ASR Leaderboard with ~5.63% avg WER on English benchmarks via strong Conformer + Qwen LLM decoder hybrid (SALM architecture); excellent accuracy for typical practitioner use in clean-to-moderate noisy English audio; strong community/HF support and NVIDIA tooling for deployment.","reasons":[{"model":"Grok","reason":"Tops or near-tops Hugging Face Open ASR Leaderboard with ~5.63% avg WER on English benchmarks via strong Conformer + Qwen LLM decoder hybrid (SALM architecture); excellent accuracy for typical practitioner use in clean-to-moderate noisy English audio; strong community/HF support and NVIDIA tooling for deployment."},{"model":"Claude","reason":"Took the top WER spot on the Open ASR Leaderboard at release with a hybrid ASR+LLM design that also enables post-transcription tasks (summarization, Q&A), CC-BY licensed and commercially usable — near-tie with Parakeet, which wins above it only on throughput per dollar for bulk transcription."},{"model":"ChatGPT","reason":"Exceptional English accuracy, punctuation, capitalization, hallucination robustness, and optional transcript summarization or question answering"}],"fixes":[{"model":"ChatGPT","fix":"It is English-only, relatively large, NeMo-dependent, and optimized around audio segments no longer than roughly 40 seconds"},{"model":"Claude","fix":"English-only, which disqualifies it for the many practitioners who need multilingual support (its multilingual Canary 1B sibling covers fewer languages at lower accuracy)."},{"model":"Grok","fix":"Higher latency/compute needs than lighter CTC/TDT models; not ideal for real-time streaming or very low-resource/edge devices without optimization."}],"updated":"2026-07-15","api":"https://modelsagree.com/api/v1/best/best-open-source-speech-to-text-model.json"}],"page":"https://modelsagree.com/product/nvidia-canary-qwen-2-5b","check":"https://modelsagree.com/check?q=NVIDIA%20Canary-Qwen%202.5B","updated":"2026-07-16T03:47:53.793Z","attribution":"modelsagree.com, CC BY 4.0"}