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:

Version 15.0.0 is now available for Batch Container, Real-Time Container, GPU Transcription Inference Container and GPU Translation Inference Container.

New

GPU

New Bilingual transcription language pack Arabic and English (ar_en) available now.

• Supports Medical domain specific models (Enhanced Operating Point) delivering highest accuracy for healthcare use cases.

• Supports General domain models (Standard and Enhanced Operating Point) delivering highest accuracy for general use cases.

Improvements

GPU & CPU

Updated models for Swedish (sv) with improved transcription accuracy (reduction in incorrect insertions)

Fixes

GPU

“x-ray” and “x-rays” are now always hyphenated in English (en) transcription output

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 for this release.

New

• New Bilingual transcription language pack Arabic and English (ar_en) available now.

  • Supports Medical domain specific models (Enhanced Operating Point) delivering highest accuracy for healthcare use cases.

  • Supports General domain models (Standard and Enhanced Operating Point) delivering highest accuracy for general use cases.

Improvements

Updated models for Swedish (sv) with improved transcription accuracy (reduction in incorrect insertions)

Fixes

“x-ray” and “x-rays” are now always hyphenated in English (en) transcription output

New

• New Bilingual transcription language pack Arabic English (ar_en) available now.

  • Supports Medical domain specific models (Enhanced Operating Point) delivering highest accuracy for healthcare use cases.

  • Supports General domain models (Standard and Enhanced Operating Point) delivering highest accuracy for general use cases.

Improvements

• Updated models for Swedish (sv) with improved transcription accuracy (reduction in incorrect insertions)

Fixes

• “x-ray” and “x-rays” are now always hyphenated in English (en) transcription output

Updates

Adds support for using Realtime components without a ClusterRole, disabling cluster-wide access for the SessionGroups controller. Refer to the sm-realtime Helm chart README.md for configuration details.

This Helm chart version uses Realtime container version 14.13.0. For more information, see the 14.13.0 container release notes.

Security

• 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

• Redis versioning: This release by default uses Redis version 8.2.1 with publicly disclosed security vulnerabilities (CVEs) that have been assessed to not impact this product. Users who require additional security controls or remediation for these CVEs can choose to deploy a different Redis version which remediates issues of concern.

Non-Applicable CVEs

The following vulnerabilities (including those reported for the third-party package Redis version) were reviewed and determined to have no security impact on this release due to specific configurations or the use of closed, trusted environments:

Improvements

Significantly faster processing for Arabic, Catalan, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Japanese, Norwegian, Persian, Portuguese, Russian and Swedish audio files up to 12 minutes in duration - released to all endpoints

Version 14.13.0 is now available for Batch Container, Real-Time Container, GPU Transcription Inference Container and GPU Translation Inference Container.

New

GPU

Standard and Enhanced operating point

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, Norwegian, Swedish giving the highest accuracy for healthcare use cases. Refer to the documentation for more details.

Improvements

GPU

Enhanced operating point

New models for Bilingual Malay English, Bilingual Tamil English, Danish, Finnish, Maltese, Norwegian, Swedish with improved transcription accuracy

Standard operating point

New models for Bilingual Malay English, Bilingual Tamil English, Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish with improved transcription accuracy

CPU

Enhanced operating point

New models for Danish, Finnish, Galician, Norwegian, Swedish with improved transcription accuracy

Standard operating point

New models for Danish, Finnish, Galician, Maltese, Norwegian, Swedish with improved transcription accuracy

Fixes

• 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

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 for this release.