IBM released Granite Speech 5.0 2B, an Apache 2.0 speech recognition and translation model. It ranks #2 on the Open ASR Leaderboard with 5.68% average English WER, alongside updated Turbo CTC and 4.1 2B Plus models.
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IBM released the latest version of its speech recognition AI, "Granite Speech 5.0," on October 21, 2026. Improvements include enhanced transcription accuracy in noisy and reverberant environments, as well as support for speech translation and recognition of specialized terminology. Simultaneously, updates were made to models specialized in high-speed transcription and models for recognizing speech from multiple speakers. Read more...