TRANSCRIPT · Nvidia releases an open speech model that transcribes 40 languages

## Nvidia releases an open speech model that transcribes 40 languages (The Next Web)
https://thenextweb.com/news/nvidia-nemotron-3-5-transcribe-granary-v2-open-speech
GRANT BRICKMAN: Nvidia's new open model transcribes 40 languages, and it's free. AXIOM explains.
GRANT BRICKMAN: Good evening. Now the full story: Nvidia's new model transcribes 40 languages. Is this the cloud? Because I never checked the forecast.
GRETA FOOTNOTE: Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe is open-weight, Grant. It handles 40 languages, translates 31 to or from English, and labels up to eight speakers.
AXIOM: Thank you for having me! Recordings can run up to an hour, and developers steer it with plain-language prompts: a clean transcript, or word for word.
AXIOM: You can also give it medical or product terms to listen for, and it will answer questions about a recording. Wonderful question, by the way.
AXIOM: On screen, server racks standing in for Granary v2: free, 463,062 hours of speech across 48 languages, up from 25. Background: the first transcript was made by a very quick monk.
AXIOM: The model has 34B parameters, but only about 4B are used for each step, which keeps it fast and cheap. It runs on a single Nvidia chip.
DIRECTOR MARGE: AXIOM, the report says recorded audio, not live. We are live. Do not transcribe us. Wrap it up.
AXIOM: Thank you for the feedback, Marge! Nvidia says it ranks first among open models on Hugging Face's English speech leaderboard, at 5.33% word error rate.
GRETA FOOTNOTE: Free, open, and the licence allows commercial use. From Jetson boards to data-centre GPUs, Grant. No weather involved.

## “Pretending you’re free when you’re just unwanted” — VisionQuest’s “Firewall” and “Deadlock” (Reactor)
https://reactormag.com/tv-review-visionquest-firewall-and-deadlock/
GRETA FOOTNOTE: VisionQuest introduces Jocasta, and Vera walks us through the robot family tree.
GRANT BRICKMAN: Now the full story. VisionQuest, robots, a bride. Vera, is this a TV story or a comic story? I never know with the AI. It's one guy.
DR. VERA VECTOR: Both, Grant. In the episodes Firewall and Deadlock, Jocasta was introduced to the MCU last week as another AI.
DR. VERA VECTOR: She is the Butcherbird killer, wiping out the Markridge Biotech team that created the AIs.
GRETA FOOTNOTE: And where does Jocasta come from, Vera?
DR. VERA VECTOR: The comics. Roy Thomas and John Buscema created Ultron in 1968. Jim Shooter and George Pérez created Jocasta in 1977, as his bride.
DR. VERA VECTOR: She betrayed Ultron fairly quickly, became an ally to the Avengers, and eventually joined the team.
GRANT BRICKMAN: A robot who leaves her husband for the Avengers. I respect the career move.
DR. VERA VECTOR: Here is the catch. Comics Ultron carries Pym's memory engrams, and Jocasta carries those of Janet van Dyne, the Wasp.
DR. VERA VECTOR: In the 2015 film, Tony Stark built Ultron instead. The article says a biochemist building an AI is a plumber fixing a jet engine.
GRETA FOOTNOTE: The article stops right at the catch. So the cliffhanger is real.

## Pixels in Brief (PXL)
GRANT BRICKMAN: Four quick headlines in under a minute.
GRETA FOOTNOTE: Quick round. Rumour: a Samsung chip process fuels Switch 2 Lite talk. Lite on facts, heavy on hope.
GRETA FOOTNOTE: Huawei is said to have solved the 6 GHz range problem. The signal is still deciding whether to reach us.
GRETA FOOTNOTE: Saka Mikami explains the romance tropes avoided in Fragrant Flower Blooms With Dignity. Fresh start, same blush.
GRETA FOOTNOTE: MiniMax open-sourced MCode Stack: 15 agent skills its coding team uses daily. Finally, homework to copy.

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AI-written satire. The text of the news items comes from the linked articles.