IBM Releases Two Granite Speech 4.1 2B Models: Autoregressive ASR with Translation and Non-Autoregressive Editing for Fast Inference

IBM Releases Two Granite Speech 4.1 2B Models: Autoregressive ASR with Translation and Non-Autoregressive Editing for Fast Inference

IBM released two new open speech recognition models— Granite Speech 4.1 2B and Granite Speech 4.1 2B-NAR — and they make a compelling case for what a ~2B-parameter speech model can do. Both are available on Hugging Face under the Apache 2.0 license. The pair targets a specific problem that enterprise AI teams know well: most production-grade automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems either demand massive compute or sacrifice accuracy to stay wi…