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Nova-3

Measured 2026-07-03

WER · batch

12.0%

n=50 · FLEURS clean read-English

Corrected 2026-09-02 from a published 9.8% that has no reproducible source. 11.96% is the mean per-clip WER of the committed batch artifact results/anchor-nova3-20260808.json (run of 2026-08-08), re-confirmed by rescoring that artifact with the current text normalizer — 11.96% as stored and 11.96% rescored.

WER · stream

12.9%

WER · conversational

15.1%

Mishears rather than drops: 7.9% substitutions against 5.2% deletions.

Finalize

106ms

p50–p90 · us-east4 · n=30

Time to first token

1.12s

p50–p90 · us-east4

Cost / min

$0.0048

Streaming pay-as-you-go. Vendor flags it as a limited-time promotional rate; pre-recorded is $0.0043.

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