- Qwen3-ASR has stayed in the top 10 of the Hugging Face Open ASR Leaderboard for over six months, competitive with closed models.
- Inference support lagged the model. Nari built a custom engine to keep accuracy while improving speed and cost.
- https://narilabs.com/blog/achieving-the-pareto-frontier-for-stt/
- Ranked top 5 in accuracy (~4% WER) on Coval. Outperforms Gemini Transcribe 3.5, Cartesia Ink 2, and ElevenLabs Scribe v2 RT.
- Fast: #1 time-to-final segment on Coval (sub-50 ms).
- Standard: #1 lowest price of streaming STT models ($0.06 per hour).
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