New

GPU & CPU

• Word Replacement - Enables words in the transcript to be modified using a search and replace pattern. Refer to documentation here for details.

• Supports the prefer_current_speaker configurable parameter to reduce the likelihood of incorrectly switching between similar sounding speakers. Refer to documentation for more details.

• New Tagalog language is now available. Supports code-switching between Filipino and English for bilingual speech

GPU

• Standard and Enhanced operating point

  • New bilingual transcription languages: Malay English (en_ms), Tamil English (en_ta), Mandarin English (cmn_en), Arabic English (ar_en). Refer to documentation here for details.

  • New Multilingual transcription language pack Mandarin Malay Tamil English (cmn_en_ms_ta) available now. Refer to the documentation for more details.

• Enhanced operating point

  • New medical domain-specific models for Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Norwegian, Spanish and Swedish giving the highest accuracy for healthcare use cases. Refer to the documentation for more details.

Improvements

GPU

• Significant increase in session density for GPU inference.

• Standard Operating Point

  • Enables faster transcription and higher throughput, refer to the documentation for more details

  • New models released with notable accuracy uplifts for the below languages:

    Domain	Language	Relative Improvement
    General	Belarusian	68.9%
    General	Bulgarian	13.1%
    General	Catalan	57.5%
    General	Croatian	5.0%
    General	Czech	3.4%
    General	Danish	34.3%
    General	Esperanto	37.9%
    General	Estonian	5.1%
    General	Persian	9.7%
    General	Finnish	38.8%
    General	French	3.1%
    General	Galician	85.4%
    General	Greek	7.2%
    General	Hebrew	2.1%
    General	Hindi	9.3%
    General	Hungarian	15.8%
    General	Indonesian	19.1%
    General	Japanese	2.1%
    General	Korean	17.1%
    General	Latvian	25.1%
    General	Lithuanian	11.2%
    General	Malay	4.2%
    General	Marathi	28.8%
    General	Mongolian	19.6%
    General	Norwegian	18.5%
    General	Polish	2.0%
    General	Romanian	8.5%
    General	Slovak	4.1%
    General	Slovenian	9.8%
    General	Swedish	5.4%
    General	Thai	22.1%
    General	Turkish	33.2%
    General	Ukrainian	29.9%
    General	Urdu	16.1%
    General	Vietnamese	110.9%
    General	Welsh	20.3%

• Enhanced Operating Point

  • New models for English with improved accuracy in transcribing initialisms

  • New models released with notable accuracy uplifts for the below languages:

    Domain	Language	Relative Improvement
    General	Danish	20.6%
    General	Dutch	16.0%
    General	Spanish	4.1%
    General	Finnish	31.0%
    General	French	2.1%
    General	Interlingua	8.7%
    General	Japanese	5.8%
    General	Malay	6.8%
    General	Maltese	5.5%
    General	Norwegian	9.3%
    General	Swedish	10.4%
    General	Uyghur	8.0%

CPU

• Standard Operating Point

  • New models released with notable accuracy uplifts for the below languages:

    Domain	Language	Relative Improvement
    General	Belarusian	61.3%
    General	Bosnian	12.2%
    General	Bulgarian	6.4%
    General	Catalan	19.9%
    General	Welsh	5.4%
    General	Danish	2.8%
    General	Esperanto	43.9%
    General	Greek	4.1%
    General	Persian	5.9%
    General	Finnish	40.9%
    General	Galician	64.3%
    General	Irish	3.1%
    General	Hindi	4.0%
    General	Interlingua	24.9%
    General	Korean	7.6%
    General	Latvian	4.2%
    General	Malay	2.9%
    General	Maltese	3.5%
    General	Mongolian	19.4%
    General	Marathi	11.1%
    General	Norwegian	4.1%
    General	Romanian	2.7%
    General	Swedish	5.3%
    General	Thai	10.1%
    General	Ukrainian	19.3%
    General	Vietnamese	15.1%

  • Enhanced Operating Point

    • New models released with notable accuracy uplifts for the below languages:

      Domain	Language	Relative Improvement
      General	Belarusian	61.7%
      General	Bosnian	8.7%
      General	Bulgarian	7.4%
      General	Catalan	6.2%
      General	Welsh	3.3%
      General	Danish	27.4%
      General	Greek	3.2%
      General	Esperanto	41.8%
      General	Persian	4.7%
      General	Finnish	55.0%
      General	French	4.5%
      General	Irish	5.7%
      General	Galician	72.8%
      General	Hindi	3.1%
      General	Interlingua	35.1%
      General	Korean	4.1%
      General	Latvian	3.1%
      General	Mongolian	21.4%
      General	Marathi	12.4%
      General	Dutch	12.9%
      General	Norwegian	11.7%
      General	Swedish	5.9%
      General	Thai	7.0%
      General	Ukrainian	18.7%
      General	Uyghur	2.0%
      General	Vietnamese	20.1%

Fixes

• Fix failure to process some audio files starting with non-speech audio when speaker diarization is enabled.

• Fix for Japanese to address decimals being occasionally transcribed as full stops.

• Fix for number formatting in Malay & English bilingual (en_ms) and Tamil & English bilingual (en_ta) language packs

  • Resolves the following tickets: 30055

• Fix for incorrect casing in Japanese (ja) transcription output

  • Resolves the following ticket: 28276

• Fixed a session failure when a custom dictionary’s first item is only a hyphen.

Security fixes

Vulnerability Management

• Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) is available for download from the corresponding release page in our Support Portal.

• libgstreamer (CVE-2025-3887): This component has been manually patched to address CVE-2025-3887. Note: Security scanners may still flag this component as vulnerable because the base version string remains unchanged

Non-Applicable CVEs

The following vulnerabilities were reviewed and determined to have no security impact on this release due to specific configurations or the use of closed, trusted environments: