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nemotron 3.5 asr streaming 0.6B
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by Nvidia
OPEN WEIGHTSLOCALUS-MADE
RANKED #4 OF 22 AUDIO · OVERALL #103 OF 6,567 · VIBE SCORE 6.4 · 184 VOICES
nemotron-3.5-asr-streaming-0.6b-onnx-int4 on Hugging Face (automatic speech recognition). 1,580 downloads. Open weights for local or hosted use.
HAPPY10.0
5 mentions
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0 mentions
VIBE TRAJECTORY
26 weeks · 312 voices
HOLDING UP
Recent vibe is steady. No clear fade in the crowd.
HOW TO USE IT
Open weights. You can use a hosted service, or download it and run it yourself, free.
RUN IT ON YOUR OWN MACHINE
Open weights: download nemotron 3.5 asr streaming 0.6B once and it's yours. No subscription, no rate limits, works offline.
600M parameters, FP16 file is about 1.4 GB and Q4/INT4 is under 800 MB
- BARE MINIMUM
Modern Quad-Core CPU (e.g. AMD Ryzen 5 5600G PC)
8 GB RAM
~$250 USEDINT4 / Q4 via parakeet.cpp or ONNX, ~1.5x-realtime, real-time live streaming audio
- SWEET SPOT
Apple Mac mini (M2, 8-core CPU, 10-core GPU)
8 GB UNIFIED MEMORY
~$450 USEDFP16 via MLX or Transformers, ~8x-realtime, sub-100ms streaming latency
- FULL POWER
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 8GB
8 GB VRAM
~$299 NEWFP16 / FP8 via NVIDIA NeMo or TensorRT, ~35x-realtime, concurrent multi-stream ASR
LEARN HOW TO SET IT UP
WILL MY BOX RUN NEMOTRON 3.5 ASR STREAMING 0.6B?
The three cards above are researched picks. Search the machine you actually have — we only say yes if it should reply at a usable speed, not just load the weights and crawl.
HARDWARE PICKS & PRICES ARE RESEARCHED FROM THE LIVE WEB AND REFRESHED AUTOMATICALLY. TREAT THEM AS BALLPARK, NOT GOSPEL.
WHAT CAN YOU ACTUALLY DO WITH IT?
Everyday jobs on each of those rigs: how long nemotron 3.5 asr streaming 0.6B takes, and how good the crowd says it is at that kind of work.
| THE JOB | BARE MINIMUMModern Quad-Core CPU (e.g. AMD Ryzen 5 5600G PC) | SWEET SPOTApple Mac mini (M2, 8-core CPU, 10-core GPU) | FULL POWERNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 8GB |
|---|---|---|---|
| Narrate a scripta minute of spoken audio | ~40 S★★★★★ | ~8 S★★★★★ | ~2 S★★★★★ |
| Transcribe a recordinga ten minute recording turned into text | ~6.7 MIN★★★★★ | ~75 S★★★★★ | ~17 S★★★★★ |
STARS ARE THE COMMUNITY SCORE FOR THAT KIND OF WORK, DOCKED FOR HOW SQUASHED THE WEIGHTS GET AT EACH TIER. TIMES ARE COMPUTED FROM RESEARCHED SPEEDS. BALLPARK, NOT GOSPEL.
WHAT THE INTERNET SAYS
Not enough discussion about nemotron 3.5 asr streaming 0.6B yet to call it. We found 184 posts but people did not say much either way.
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PEOPLE LOVE
- No fan mail yet. The crowd is still warming up.
PEOPLE COMPLAIN ABOUT
- No complaints yet. The internet is still looking for one. Suspicious.
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