- Who it helps
- Speech-interface developers evaluating live transcription.
- Availability
- The November 4 paper and implementation are public. Model weights have a custom NetEase licence; deployment needs compatible compute.
Learn when to wait
The method trains recognition to emit a stable prefix: the words it can commit before more audio arrives. The paper describes Chinese and English training and Qwen3-ASR as its base speech-recognition model.
Separate model delay from service delay
Reported lag excludes networking and serving overhead. The model licence requires separate permission above stated organization-scale thresholds and restricts using it to improve other commercial models. These terms matter before deployment.
Confucius4-R2T2 streaming recognition paper ↗Confucius4-R2T2 model licence ↗
What you can do
- Compare the paper’s lag definition and model licence with your transcription requirements. Open reference ↗
Where the evidence stops
No audio was transcribed here. Accuracy, accents, end-to-end latency and hardware needs were not reproduced; the linked demonstration page was inaccessible.
Sources read. Public source text read November 10, 2026 UTC. No installation, model inference or complete workflow executed.
Sources & further reading
Paper · paper
Confucius4-R2T2 streaming recognition paper ↗
November 4 paper explains when to commit streaming transcription text.
Confucius4-R2T2 authors · page checked 2026-11-10 · Published 2026-11-04
GitHub · implementation
Confucius4-R2T2 implementation ↗
Public implementation documents streaming recognition; no audio processed.
NetEase Youdao · page checked 2026-11-10
873 stars · observed 2026-11-10 00:18 UTC
GitHub · official
Confucius4-R2T2 model licence ↗
Custom model terms include scale-based commercial licensing and restrictions on improving other commercial models.
NetEase Youdao · page checked 2026-11-10
More sources reviewed (2)
Hugging Face · analysis
NetEase Youdao creator index ↗
Creator index followed one level beyond the paper; recent speech and math artifacts inspected.
NetEase Youdao · page checked 2026-11-10
Hugging Face · discussion
Confucius4-R2T2 paper discussion ↗
Paper abstract and author comment inspected; an author comment is not independent discussion.
Daniel Huang / Hykaruu · page checked 2026-11-10
Coverage note: Independent execution and qualifying dated cross-platform attention remain incomplete.
The record over time (1)
Dated source checks and published explanations. An observation date can differ from the original release date.
- · Added to Current
Confucius4-R2T2 studies streaming speech recognition that keeps already committed words unchanged.