# Confucius4-R2T2 from NetEase Youdao tops Hugging Face's ASR Trending list

> Original title: The way these guys are doing streaming speech recognition is really cool.

- Source: Santiago
- Published: 2026-11-06T17:15:30.000Z
- Bad Influence: https://badinfluence.news/items/gywh7ruusoce7bv0kgauof285
- Original: https://x.com/svpino/status/2118754159281459416

## Summary

NetEase Youdao's Confucius4-R2T2 reached No. 1 on Hugging Face's ASR Trending list within four days of release, according to Santiago. The model has more than 200K cumulative downloads worldwide, including quantized versions. Santiago says he read the paper, which is linked, but the post gives no further details.

## Post

The way these guys are doing streaming speech recognition is really cool.

#1 on Hugging Face's ASR Trending list: Confucius4-R2T2 from @NetEaseYouDaoAI. It hit #1 within 4 days of release.

It now has 200K+ cumulative downloads worldwide, including quantized versions.

I read their paper, and here is what you should know:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2611.06043

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