---
title: NepaliConformer
emoji: 🏔️
colorFrom: red
colorTo: gray
sdk: gradio
sdk_version: "5.44.1"
python_version: "3.11"
app_file: app.py
pinned: false
license: cc-by-nc-4.0
short_description: Nepali ASR built for real telephone calls, not read speech
---

# NepaliConformer

Transcribe Nepali speech with a model trained for **real telephone audio**. On the NepTel
real-call benchmark it scores 33.8% WER where Whisper-large-v3 zero-shot scores ~99%.

Full release — models, benchmark, honest results including every measured limitation:
**https://github.com/Ampixa/nepaliconformer**