Tencent Releases Hy ASR 3.0: Finally, Speech Recognition That Understands Context

Tencent's Hunyuan has unveiled the next generation speech recognition model Hy ASR 3.0 preview: Built on the foundation of the large language model Hy3, it achieves a word error rate of around 3% for Mandarin, English, and Cantonese in open-source evaluation sets, with automatic homophone correction based on context. It is now available for free on Yuanbao and as an API on Tencent Cloud. We have cross-referenced multiple reports to explain what this means for daily voice input users.