# NVIDIA releases Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe, an open speech LLM for 40 languages

> Original title: NVIDIA Releases Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe: An Open 30B MoE Model for 40-Language Transcription with ~4B Active Parameters

- Source: MarkTechPost
- Published: 2026-10-29T04:41:24.000Z
- Bad Influence: https://badinfluence.news/items/i4kuzsh1f1fnz1ncaggddos86
- Original: https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/10/28/nvidia-nemotron-3-5-transcribe-open-speech-llm/

## Summary

NVIDIA has released Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe, an open-weights speech LLM that handles transcription in 40 languages for audio up to one hour. The model reports 4.71% mean WER on nine public English Open ASR sets, the best open-weights score in NVIDIA's report, while commercial APIs still lead. It is offline only, and its Mandarin meeting accuracy is weak at 34.95% cpCER on AliMeeting.