New

• New transcription language - Persian (fa)

• New bilingual Spanish and English container - this enables Spanish and English to be transcribed accurately within the same audio stream. To pull the new container see here. Only available for GPU

• New GPU Ursa models - all 49 languages are now available on GPU

• Major transcription accuracy gains

• Major improvement in Speaker Diarization accuracy

• Faster transcription

• Arabic (ar), Bashkir (ba), Basque (eu), Belarusian (be), Bulgarian (bg), Cantonese (yue), Catalan (ca), Croatian (hr), Czech (cs), Danish (da), Dutch (nl), Esperanto (eo), Estonian (et), Finnish (fi), Galician (gl), Greek (el), Hindi (hi), Hungarian (hu), Indonesian (id), Interlingua (ia), Italian (it), Japanese (ja), Korean (ko), Latvian (lv), Lithuanian (lt), Malay (ms), Mandarin (cmn), Marathi (mr), Mongolian (mn), Norwegian (no), Polish (pl), Portuguese (pt), Romanian (ro), Russian (ru), Slovakian (sk), Slovenian (sl), Swedish (sv), Tamil (ta), Thai (th), Turkish (tr), Ukrainian (uk), Uyghur (ug), Vietnamese (vi), Welsh (cy) with associated GPU Inference Container

Improvements ​

• GPU & CPU

  • Improved models for English transcription (Standard and Enhanced operating points):

    • Enhanced transcription of disfluencies in English. The model now more accurately captures common disfluencies like "um" and "uh". This change makes our ASR even more accurate for verbatim transcription, great for use cases such as audio editing, analytics on hesitations for call centers and legal transcription. For details on how to identify disfluencies in output, see the documentation here

    • More accurate transcription of short utterances of the word "I" in English

    • More accurate transcription of acronyms in English

  • Appropriate punctuation is now provided for finals after a pause in speech, improving transcription for downstream workflows such as translation

• CPU

  • Significantly improved transcription accuracy for English

  • Significantly improved transcription accuracy for Norwegian

Fixes ​

• Fixed an error with custom dictionary when the content is only a "-"

• Security fixes

Known Issues

• When Speaker Diarization is enabled, occasionally punctuation can be labeled as Speaker:UU (unknown speaker)