Specifications
Size
~154 MB (INT8 ONNX)
Architecture
Conformer
Latency
Medium
Language
English, Spanish, French
Developer / Creator
NVIDIA (NeMo team), Sherpa ONNX community
License
CC BY 4.0 model; Apache-2.0 Sherpa ONNX runtimeDownload Source
Verified Repository Source
Hugging Face Hub / Sherpa ONNX model catalog
NVIDIA Canary 180M FlashExact runtime artifacts
Model Overview
NVIDIA's Canary is a multilingual speech recognition model. In tapWhisper it transcribes English, Spanish, and French entirely on your Mac through Sherpa ONNX. Transcripts stay in the language you speak — speech translation is not enabled.
Available Model Variants
| Model Name | File Size | RAM Usage | Format/Quant | Languages | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA Canary | 154 MB | 650 MB | INT8 (ONNX) | EN, ES, FR | NVIDIA Canary 180M Flash. On-device speech recognition in English, Spanish, and French. |