// Hacker Noon · 12 May 2026

How Nvidia Made Its ASR Models 3x Faster Than the Competition

Nvidia's Parakeet models sit 3x clear of the rest of the Hugging Face Open ASR Leaderboard on throughput, with competitive accuracy. The reason is the Token-and-Duration Transducer (TDT), a small modification to RNN-T that adds a second head predicting how many encoder frames each token covers. Inst...

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