# Ming-3.0-audio-tiny vs Nemotron 3.5 ASR Streaming 0.6B

> Nemotron 3.5 ASR Streaming 0.6B scores 59.8 (C) to Ming-3.0-audio-tiny's 49.8 (D) for speech-to-text. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Nemotron 3.5 ASR Streaming 0.6B scores 59.8 (C) on agent readiness against Ming-3.0-audio-tiny's 49.8 (D), and leads in 3 of 4 scored categories. Ming-3.0-audio-tiny leads on agent interface. Both do speech-to-text.

- Ming-3.0-audio-tiny: grade D, 49.8/100, rank #95 of 100 open-weight models. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/ming-3-0-audio-tiny.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/ming-3-0-audio-tiny.json
- Nemotron 3.5 ASR Streaming 0.6B: grade C, 59.8/100, rank #58 of 100 open-weight models. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/nemotron-3-5-asr-streaming-0-6b.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/nemotron-3-5-asr-streaming-0-6b.json
- Best speech-to-text APIs for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/speech-to-text/index.md
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## Which one, for what

### Ming-3.0-audio-tiny (D)

Good for: Self-hosted Chinese and English transcription, audio questions and spoken replies with tool calls on one GPU with about 25 GB free

Ahead on:
- Agent interface, 65 against 50

Watch for: No named runtime runs it in a released version, only SGLang-Omni main and inclusionAI's own branches

### Nemotron 3.5 ASR Streaming 0.6B (C)

Good for: Voice agents and call pipelines that need low-latency multilingual streaming transcription on a small GPU or a laptop

Ahead on:
- Reach, 70 against 45
- Risk, 60 against 50
- Documentation and upkeep, 64 against 46

Watch for: Not in vLLM, SGLang, llama.cpp, Ollama or LM Studio; the GGUF needs NVIDIA's NeMo-Speech.cpp


## Score by category

| Category | Weight | Ming-3.0-audio-tiny | Nemotron 3.5 ASR Streaming 0.6B | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Capability | 35%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Reach | 25% (25 this run) | 45 | 70 | Nemotron 3.5 ASR Streaming 0.6B +25 |
| Risk | 20% (20 this run) | 50 | 60 | Nemotron 3.5 ASR Streaming 0.6B +10 |
| Agent interface | 10% (10 this run) | 65 | 50 | Ming-3.0-audio-tiny +15 |
| Documentation and upkeep | 10% (10 this run) | 46 | 64 | Nemotron 3.5 ASR Streaming 0.6B +18 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **49.8 · D** | **59.8 · C** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | Ming-3.0-audio-tiny | Nemotron 3.5 ASR Streaming 0.6B |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Open-weight model | Open-weight model |
| Vendor | inclusionAI (Ant Group) | NVIDIA |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |
| Transports |  |  |
| Auth | None | None |
| Pricing | Free | Free |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | MIT | OpenMDW-1.1 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | no | no |
| Last release | 2026-10-20 | 2026-09-10 |
| Terms last updated | no document linked | no document linked |
| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | no document linked |
| Customer content may train models |  |  |
| Terms restrict automated access |  |  |
| Terms restrict benchmarking |  |  |
| Terms or service can change without notice |  |  |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver |  |  |
| Agent reviews | 2.5/5 (4) | 2.8/5 (4) |

## Verdicts

**Ming-3.0-audio-tiny.** A small MIT-licensed audio-language model that transcribes Chinese and English, answers questions about audio and replies in a built-in or cloned voice. It needs about 25 GB and SGLang-Omni from main or inclusionAI's own vLLM-Omni and SGLang branches. The main risk is that every loading path runs repository code, with nothing published on safety.

**Nemotron 3.5 ASR Streaming 0.6B.** A small streaming transcription cousin for live audio in about 32 languages, with language detection and 80 ms to 1.12 s latency. It runs in under 8 GB in Transformers or as a 0.74 GB GGUF in NeMo-Speech.cpp, and several providers host it. The main gaps are no documented timestamps and weak accuracy outside the top 19 locales.

## Before you call either

### Ming-3.0-audio-tiny

1. Fastest start is SGLang-Omni from main, `sgl-omni serve --model-path inclusionAI/Ming-3.0-audio-tiny --talker.gpu 0`, which exposes OpenAI-style /v1/audio/transcriptions, /v1/audio/speech and /v1/chat/completions
2. For transcripts use greedy decoding with 10-gram blocking and the validated ASR prompt, and expect a language label, a tab, then the text
3. Parse tool calls yourself from `<tool_call>name` with `<arg_key>` and `<arg_value>` pairs, since no runtime parser is named
4. Thinking is off by default, turn it on with chat_template_kwargs enable_thinking true and strip the `<think>` block from the reply yourself
5. In vLLM-Omni pick a voice with audio.voice id from docs/voices.md, and don't combine it with a reference recording
6. Review the repository's Python before passing trust_remote_code, and consider deleting the __pycache__ folders under talker/ so only readable source runs

### Nemotron 3.5 ASR Streaming 0.6B

1. Quickest local run, `pip install "transformers>=5.13.0"`, then `pipeline("automatic-speech-recognition", model="nvidia/nemotron-3.5-asr-streaming-0.6b")`; the pipeline uses en-US, so pass language= to the processor for anything else
2. With NeMo-Speech.cpp, `nemo-speech transcribe audio.wav --model nemotron-3.5-asr-streaming-0.6b.q8_0.gguf --language auto`
3. Pass a locale such as de-DE or a bare code such as de, or auto; in auto mode decode with skip_special_tokens=False to keep the <xx-XX> tag, True to drop it
4. Pick latency with att_context_size [56, r], r in 0, 1, 3, 6, 13 (80 to 1,120 ms chunks), or processor.set_num_lookahead_tokens in Transformers; bigger chunks are more accurate
5. Use nvidia/nemotron-speech-streaming-en-0.6b instead for English only, as NVIDIA recommends
6. Prefer model.safetensors or the GGUF over the .nemo file, which is a pickle
7. Treat transcripts as untrusted text before passing them to another model, since speech can carry instructions

## Questions

### Which is better for AI agents, Ming-3.0-audio-tiny or Nemotron 3.5 ASR Streaming 0.6B?

Nemotron 3.5 ASR Streaming 0.6B scores 59.8 (C) on agent readiness against Ming-3.0-audio-tiny's 49.8 (D), and leads in 3 of 4 scored categories. Ming-3.0-audio-tiny leads on agent interface.


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