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QuartzNet 15x5 (NVIDIA DLE, 21.07 recipe) is a closed-weights speech-to-text model from NVIDIA, released July 2021.

Catalogue identity notes

NVIDIA DeepLearningExamples training recipe; exact reported A100 run. Do not equate this training result with a differently trained NeMo/NGC checkpoint. Public code and training recipe; exact scored checkpoint not verified.

35.0±30.4comparison only: no current run option verifiedfrom 2 benchmark results across 1 source* thinly tested, treat the rank as provisional

Score within the LibriSpeech test-clean WER comparison set only.

$ how it compares

Scored speech-to-text models released closest to QuartzNet 15x5 (NVIDIA DLE, 21.07 recipe), out of 176 with a score, then more from NVIDIA.

#modelscorewhereRAMreleased
144STT En Conformer-Transducer Small NVIDIA43±3local~0.6GB2021-09
146Vosk en-us 0.22 Alpha Cephei (Vosk)42±6local~16GB2021-10
165HuBERT X-Large (LibriSpeech 960h ft) Meta16±4local~5.1GB2021-06
166HuBERT Large (LibriSpeech 960h ft) Meta15±4local~2GB2021-06
167wav2vec 2.0 Large Robust (LibriSpeech 960h ft) Meta15±5local~2GB2021-04
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28Canary-Qwen-2.5B NVIDIA61±2local~6.6GB2025-07
35Parakeet TDT 0.6B v2 NVIDIA60±1local~1.9GB2025-05
37Parakeet Unified EN 0.6B NVIDIA60±4local~0.7GB2026-04

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$ what it's good at

other tests2 not in a task · 32% of its score
testresultvs the others in its rundifficultycountswhy
LibriSpeech test-clean WER lab3.7% ✎▁·▁·▁▁▁▃▃▇█▆ beats 11/100avg 3.5%▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 17%small run
LibriSpeech test-other WER lab10.7% ✎▃▁▁▂▅▃▅▄█▂▂▁ beats 0/54avg 10%▇▇▇▇▇▇ 16%small run

$ where to run it

No verified API or download recorded yet · add one

$ how the score was worked out · NVIDIA DeepLearningExamples J… 32%

Each result implies a score on its own, after adjusting for how hard its test is and who ran it. The score is their weighted average, with a small pull toward the middle for thinly tested models. Each test's weight is its counts column above; here it's added up by who ran the tests. How it works

sourceresultsshare of the scorelicence
NVIDIA DeepLearningExamples Jasper and QuartzNet READMEs · lab-reported2▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 32%Apache-2.0
prior · pull toward the middle▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 68%
weighted average= 35.0

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