Language Model

Google just announced Gemini 3.5 Live Translate. It is their latest audio model for live speech-to-speech translation. Speech-to-speech means spoken audio goes in, and translated spoken audio comes out. The model detects over 70 languages automatically and generates translated speech. It preserves the speaker’s intonation, pacing, and pitch in the output. Turn-by-turn systems wait for […]

Last week Microsoft AI has announced MAI-Transcribe-1.5. It is the second iteration of the company’s in-house speech-to-text family. The model targets accuracy across 43 languages, accents, and noisy environments. The Microsoft team positions it for production transcription workloads. What is MAI-Transcribe-1.5 MAI-Transcribe-1.5 is an automatic speech recognition (ASR) model. It takes audio as input and

NVIDIA’s Nemotron Speech team has released Nemotron 3.5 ASR. It is a 600M-parameter streaming Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) model. A single checkpoint transcribes 40 language-locales in real time. Punctuation and capitalization are built in natively. The model ships as open weights on Hugging Face. The license is OpenMDW-1.1. The architecture is a Cache-Aware FastConformer-RNNT. What