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Canary 1B Flash

Hugging Face: nvidia/canary-1b-flash · checked 2026-10-13

Multilingual ASR and translation (en, de, es, fr).

Datasheet

Maker
NVIDIA
Parameters
811 MVerifiedsafetensors.total from the HF API Source
Licence
CC-BY-4.0Verified
Access
Public download
Task (HF pipeline)
automatic-speech-recognition
First published on HF
2025-03-07
Last updated on HF
2026-06-29
Weights in memory
1.6 GB at 16-bit · 0.5 GB at ~4.85 bitsEstimateParameters × bits ÷ 8. Excludes context cache and runtime overhead; not every model has a 4-bit build.

Benchmark

Not yet measured
Open ASR Leaderboard, average WER (English short-form)

No comparable public score for this benchmark yet (Not listed in the current leaderboard file). We will not estimate one.

The description summarises the model card at https://huggingface.co/nvidia/canary-1b-flash. Parameters and licence are read from the Hugging Face API; the weights-in-memory line is our arithmetic, not a measurement.