Speech-to-text
Canary 1B v2 requirements, license & speed
By NVIDIA · released 2025-08-04 · 978M parameters
Commercial useYes
Min memoryAt least 6 GB RAM to load
Runs on CPUUnknown
StreamingUnknown
Key facts
- License
- cc-by-4.0 source
- Commercial use
- Yes sourceCC-BY-4.0; card: ready for commercial/non-commercial use
- Parameters
- 978M source
- Minimum memory
- At least 6 GB RAM to load source
- Runs on CPU
- Unknown
- Streaming
- Unknown
- Voice cloning
- n/a (speech-to-text)
- Languages
- bg, hr, cs, da, nl, en, et, fi, fr, de, el, hu, it, lv, lt, mt, pl, pt, ro, sk, sl, es, sv, ru, uk source
- Released
- 2025-08-04 sourceHugging Face repo creation date (proxy for release date)
- Gated on HF
- No
Measured speed & memory
Benchmark pending. We haven't measured Canary 1B v2 yet. Planned targets: CPU (8 vCPU), Apple Silicon Mac, RTX-class consumer GPU and a rented cloud GPU. Get notified.
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