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Accented speech76Clean read speech92European-accented speech92Financial calls92Harder read speech92Open ASR RTFx74Open ASR WER76Podcasts and video92Recorded meetings92
Open ASR WER
Word error rate, %, averaged over nine English test sets on the Open ASR Leaderboard — LOWER is better, unlike every other benchmark hereProvenance76 modelsscores Sep 11, 2026 – Sep 28, 2026
1Scribe v2 ProZoomScore3.59ScoredSep 11, 20262Azure Speech 07 2026MicrosoftScore3.81ScoredSep 14, 20263Modulate MultilingualModulateScore3.84ScoredSep 11, 20264Scribe v2ElevenLabsScore3.97ScoredSep 11, 20265Resonant 1Reson8Score4.01ScoredSep 11, 20266Resonant 1 FlashReson8Score4.02ScoredSep 11, 20267Scribe v1ZoomScore4.15ScoredSep 11, 20268Azure Speech 06 2026MicrosoftScore4.26ScoredSep 11, 20269ASR K1 (preview)sopheaScore4.26ScoredSep 14, 202610Qwen3 ASR 1.7B HFQwen2BScore4.31ScoredSep 11, 202611Hojo ASR V1Hojo AI5.2BScore4.33ScoredSep 11, 202612Universal 3 5 ProAssemblyAIScore4.34ScoredSep 11, 202613sprag SymphonyspragScore4.35ScoredSep 28, 202614Higgs Audio v3 STTBoson AI2.7BScore4.39ScoredSep 11, 202615Smallest AI PulseSmallest AIScore4.41ScoredSep 11, 202616Canary Qwen 2.5bNVIDIA2.6BScore4.43ScoredSep 11, 202617ARK ASR 3BAutoArk AI4.1BScore4.47ScoredSep 11, 202618ARK ASR 0.6BAutoArk AI1.3BScore4.56ScoredSep 11, 202619Solaria 3GladiaScore4.57ScoredSep 11, 202620Granite Speech 4.1 2bIBM2.3BScore4.62ScoredSep 11, 202621MOSS Transcribe DiarizeOpenMOSS0.9BScore4.64ScoredSep 11, 202622Cohere Transcribe 03 2026Cohere Labs2.1BScore4.67ScoredSep 11, 202623Parakeet TDT 0.6b v2 (fast Gpu Asr)NVIDIA0.6BScore4.68ScoredSep 28, 202624Granite Speech 4.1 2b NARIBM2.3BScore4.68ScoredSep 11, 202625Parakeet TDT 0.6b v2NVIDIA0.6BScore4.7ScoredSep 11, 202626Parakeet TDT 0.6b v3 (fast Gpu Asr)NVIDIA0.6BScore4.71ScoredSep 28, 202627Granite Speech 5.0 470m Turboctc ncIBM0.5BScore4.78ScoredSep 11, 202628Muse Voice TranscribeMetaScore4.84ScoredSep 21, 202629Parakeet TDT 0.6b v3NVIDIA0.6BScore4.86ScoredSep 11, 202630MOSS Transcribe Preview 2BOpenMOSS2.4BScore4.86ScoredSep 11, 202631Canary 1b FlashNVIDIA0.8BScore4.88ScoredSep 11, 202632Voxtral Small 24B 2507Mistral AI24.3BScore4.99ScoredSep 11, 202633Phi 4 Multimodal InstructMicrosoft5.6BScore5.02ScoredSep 11, 202634Canary 1bNVIDIA1BScore5.03ScoredSep 11, 202635Higgs Audio v3 8b STT v2Boson AI8.9BScore5.04ScoredSep 11, 202636Granite Speech 5.0 470m TurboctcIBM0.5BScore5.04ScoredSep 11, 202637Qwen3 ASR 0.6B HFQwen0.8BScore5.05ScoredSep 11, 202638Granite 4.0 1b SpeechIBM2.3BScore5.1ScoredSep 11, 202639Nemotron Speech Streaming en 0.6bNVIDIA0.6BScore5.25ScoredSep 14, 202640Speechmatics EnhancedSpeechmaticsScore5.25ScoredSep 11, 202641Granite Speech 3.3 8bIBM8.6BScore5.26ScoredSep 11, 202642Zipformer cr CTC Transducer XL 290M (fast Gpu Asr, transducer Modified Beam Search)Sounds Good AI0.3BScore5.29ScoredSep 28, 202643Zipformer cr CTC Transducer XL 290MSounds Good AI0.3BScore5.29ScoredSep 11, 202644GLM ASR Nano 2512Z.ai2.3BScore5.31ScoredSep 11, 202645Granite Speech 3.3 2bIBM3BScore5.36ScoredSep 11, 202646Distil Large v3.5Distil-Whisper0.8BScore5.4ScoredSep 11, 202647Voxtral Mini 3B 2507Mistral AI4.7BScore5.54ScoredSep 11, 202648Canary 180m FlashNVIDIA0.2BScore5.54ScoredSep 11, 202649STT 2.6b enKyutai2.6BScore5.57ScoredSep 11, 202650VibeVoice ASR HFMicrosoft8.3BScore5.58ScoredSep 11, 202651Canary 1b v2NVIDIA1BScore5.71ScoredSep 11, 202652Fun ASR Nano 2512 HFFunAudioLLM0.8BScore5.74ScoredSep 14, 202653Parakeet RNNT 1.1bNVIDIA1.1BScore5.76ScoredSep 11, 202654Whisper Large v3OpenAI1.5BScore5.78ScoredSep 11, 202655Parakeet CTC 1.1bNVIDIA1.1BScore5.92ScoredSep 11, 202656Parakeet TDT CTC 110mNVIDIA0.1BScore6.15ScoredSep 11, 202657Parakeet CTC 0.6bNVIDIA0.6BScore6.16ScoredSep 11, 202658Parakeet RNNT 0.6bNVIDIA0.6BScore6.19ScoredSep 11, 202659Owsm CTC v4 1BESPnet1BScore6.28ScoredSep 11, 202660Zipformer Transducer XL 290MSounds Good AI0.3BScore6.35ScoredSep 11, 202661Whisper Large v3 TurboOpenAI0.8BScore6.36ScoredSep 14, 202662Zipformer cr CTC Transducer XL 290M (fast Gpu Asr, ctc Greedy Search)Sounds Good AI0.3BScore6.38ScoredSep 28, 202663omniASR LLM 7B v2Meta7.8BScore6.4ScoredSep 11, 202664Voxtral Mini 4B Realtime 2602Mistral AI4.4BScore6.46ScoredSep 11, 202665Audio8 ASR 0.1BAutoArk AI0.3BScore6.95ScoredSep 11, 202666Niagara 84m Batch.enApplied Brain Research84MScore7.46ScoredSep 28, 202667Nemotron 3.5 ASR Streaming 0.6bNVIDIA0.6BScore7.88ScoredSep 14, 202668Niagara 38m Batch.enApplied Brain Research38MScore8.74ScoredSep 28, 202669omniASR CTC 7B v2Meta6.5BScore9.07ScoredSep 11, 202670Gemma 4 E4B itGoogle8BScore9.51ScoredSep 14, 202671Niagara 19m Batch.enApplied Brain Research20MScore10.41ScoredSep 28, 202672Gemma 4 E2B itGoogle5.1BScore11.65ScoredSep 14, 202673Moonshine TinyUseful Sensors0Score11.78ScoredSep 11, 202674Moonshine Streaming TinyUseful Sensors0Score12.36ScoredSep 11, 202675Niagara 9m Batch.enApplied Brain Research9MScore13.49ScoredSep 28, 202676Gemma 4 12B itGoogle12BScore20.87ScoredSep 14, 2026
