Vision, audio and multimodalSpeech recognition1 story. An explainer is being written.Speech recognition in the news1 Oct 2026·Transformers releasesTransformers 5.18.0 adds four model families, breaks six APIsHugging Face's release adds Nemotron 3 diarization and NemotronH Omni alongside six backwards-incompatible fixes.Related topicsMultimodal modelsVision-language modelsImage generationVideo generationText-to-speech