Speech recognition is not the same in every situation. In some cases, getting the gist is enough; in others, not a single word can be missed. Audio8-ASR-3B is designed for meeting records, interview transcription, media subtitles, and multilingual speech where the cost of an error is high, reserving its largest parameter budget for the hardest audio.
It shares the same recognition objective as the rest of the family, while providing the strongest quality margin for complex noise, far-field microphones, multiple speakers, and long recordings.
Item
Details
Model
Audio8-ASR-3B
Scale
3B parameters
Positioning
High-accuracy flagship for the most difficult audio
Primary runtime
High-performance GPU / cloud service
Languages
19 languages
Best suited for
Complex noise, multilingual audio, long recordings, and high-quality transcription
Core capability: hear most clearly in a noisy world
Audio8-ASR-3B concentrates recognition on real recording environments: fans and keyboard noise in meeting rooms, echo at events, people speaking at the same time, and microphones placed far away, while maintaining stable transcription.
Capability
Benefit
19-language coverage
One model serves multilingual products without a separate deployment for every language
Large context window
Transcribe a whole meeting or podcast while preserving coherence
Unified multilingual modeling
Naturally transcribe Chinese-English and other mixed-language sentences
Stable, consistent output
A suitable base for QA, subtitles, and retrieval
Recognition performance that stays at the top
Audio8-ASR-3B remains among the leaders in public Chinese CER, English WER, and multilingual evaluations. Its stability under noise, far-field recording, accents, and multiple speakers makes it a direct foundation for demanding products.
Public Audio8 ASR family evaluation performance (data as of September 4, 2026).
Use cases and quick start
It is suitable for meeting and interview transcription, media subtitles, specialist terminology, and high-quality cloud batch processing. Run it on a GPU runtime, connect the transcription API, and pass the results to an existing review or retrieval workflow.
The family at a glance
Choose 0.6B when the deployment budget is tighter; when recognition must run locally on a phone or edge device, evaluate the 0.1B series.
Audio8-ASR-0.1B · Lightweight edge model: local recognition on phones and edge devices
Limitations and responsible use
Automatic transcription can be affected by noise, accents, overlapping speech, specialist terms, and audio quality, and should not be treated as an unreviewed factual record. Medical, legal, financial, and other high-risk uses require human review, and the deployer is responsible for the final output.
Obtain authorization before processing personal voices, conversations, or sensitive information and comply with applicable laws such as GDPR. Audio and text should be encrypted, access-controlled, and retained only as long as necessary.
Audio8-ASR-3B / Audio8-ASR
Bring the highest recognition quality to the recordings that are hardest to hear.
