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Accented speech74Clean read speech74European-accented speech74Financial calls74Harder read speech74Open ASR RTFx62Open ASR WER74Podcasts and video74Recorded meetings74
European-accented speech
Word error rate on VoxPopuli — European Parliament proceedings in English, mostly from non-native speakers — LOWER is betterlower is betterProvenanceindependent leaderboard74 modelsscores Aug 2, 2026
1Scribe v2ElevenLabs1.41——Aug 2, 2026leaderboard2Universal 3 ProAssemblyAI1.83——Aug 2, 2026leaderboard3Avalon v1 enAqua Voice1.86——Aug 2, 2026leaderboard4Universal 3 5 ProAssemblyAI1.92——Aug 2, 2026leaderboard5Voxtral Small 24B 2507Mistral AI24.3B27~0.13Aug 2, 2026leaderboard6VibeVoice ASR HFMicrosoft8.3B2.02—~0.39Aug 2, 2026leaderboard7GLM ASR Nano 2512Z.ai2.3B2.05—~1.4Aug 2, 2026leaderboard8Resonant 1 FlashReson82.19——Aug 2, 2026leaderboard9Resonant 1Reson82.19——Aug 2, 2026leaderboard10Voxtral Mini 3B 2507Mistral AI5B2.22—~0.7Aug 2, 2026leaderboard11Nemotron Speech Streaming en 0.6bNVIDIA0.6B2.4—~6.3Aug 2, 2026leaderboard12Distil Large v3.5Distil-Whisper0.8B2.52—~5Aug 2, 2026leaderboard13Voxtral Mini 4B Realtime 2602Mistral AI4.4B2.6—~0.94Aug 2, 2026leaderboard14Solaria 3Gladia2.76——Aug 2, 2026leaderboard15ARK ASR 0.6BAutoArk AI1.3B2.76—~3.4Aug 2, 2026leaderboard16Speechmatics EnhancedSpeechmatics2.83——Aug 2, 2026leaderboard17Qwen3 ASR 1.7B HFQwen2B2.85—~2.2Aug 2, 2026leaderboard18Qwen3 ASR 0.6B HFQwen0.8B2.9—~5.8Aug 2, 2026leaderboard19Higgs Audio v3 8b STT v2Boson AI8.9B2.94—~0.52Aug 2, 2026leaderboard20Qwen3 ASR 1.7BQwen2B3.01—~2.3Aug 2, 2026leaderboard21Qwen3 ASR 0.6BQwen0.8B3.07—~6.3Aug 2, 2026leaderboard22Hojo ASR V1Hojo AI5.2B3.11—~0.95Aug 2, 2026leaderboard23Parakeet TDT 0.6b v3NVIDIA0.6B3.19—~8.4Aug 2, 2026leaderboard24Parakeet CTC 0.6bNVIDIA0.6B3.19—~8.4Aug 2, 2026leaderboard25Parakeet CTC 1.1bNVIDIA1.1B3.24—~4.7Aug 2, 2026leaderboard26Lite Whisper Large v3 AccEfficient Speech1.4B3.35—~3.8Aug 2, 2026leaderboard27Moonshine Streaming MediumUseful Sensors0.2B3.37—~22Aug 2, 2026leaderboard28Parakeet RNNT 0.6bNVIDIA0.6B3.41—~9Aug 2, 2026leaderboard29STT 2.6b enKyutai2.6B3.53—~2.2Aug 2, 2026leaderboard30ARK ASR 3BAutoArk AI4.1B3.55—~1.4Aug 2, 2026leaderboard31Canary 180m FlashNVIDIA0.2B3.57—~32Aug 2, 2026leaderboard32MOSS Transcribe DiarizeOpenMOSS0.9B3.6—~6.3Aug 2, 2026leaderboard33Parakeet TDT 1.1bNVIDIA1.1B3.62—~5.2Aug 2, 2026leaderboard34Parakeet RNNT 1.1bNVIDIA1.1B3.64—~5.3Aug 2, 2026leaderboard35Parakeet TDT CTC 110mNVIDIA0.1B3.72—~53Aug 2, 2026leaderboard36Higgs Audio v3 STTBoson AI2.7B3.73—~2.2Aug 2, 2026leaderboard37Modulate VfastModulate3.74——Aug 2, 2026leaderboard38Moonshine Streaming SmallUseful Sensors0.1B3.76—~63Aug 2, 2026leaderboard39Parakeet TDT 0.6b v2NVIDIA0.6B3.78—~9.9Aug 2, 2026leaderboard40Smallest AI PulseSmallest AI3.85——Aug 2, 2026leaderboard41Azure Speech 06 2026Microsoft3.87——Aug 2, 2026leaderboard42Scribe v1Zoom3.95——Aug 2, 2026leaderboard43Canary 1bNVIDIA1B4.01—~6.4Aug 2, 2026leaderboard44omniASR LLM 7B v2Meta7.8B4.03——Aug 2, 2026leaderboard45ASR Conformer LargescaleasrSpeechBrain0.5B4.06—~14Aug 2, 2026leaderboard46Zipformer Transducer XL 290MSounds Good AI0.3B4.08—~23Aug 2, 2026leaderboard47Owsm CTC v4 1BESPnet1B4.09—~6.5Aug 2, 2026leaderboard48Canary Qwen 2.5bNVIDIA2.6B4.14—~2.5Aug 2, 2026leaderboard49Canary 1b FlashNVIDIA1B4.17—~6.6Aug 2, 2026leaderboard50Phi 4 Multimodal InstructMicrosoft5.6B4.18—~1.2Aug 2, 2026leaderboard51Granite Speech 4.1 2bIBM2.3B4.18—~2.9Aug 2, 2026leaderboard52Nemotron 3.5 ASR Streaming 0.6bNVIDIA0.6B4.24—~11Aug 2, 2026leaderboard53Granite Speech 4.1 2b NARIBM2.3B4.25—~2.9Aug 2, 2026leaderboard54Nyra Health CrisperWhisperNyra Health1.6B4.27—~4.2Aug 2, 2026leaderboard55Zipformer cr CTC Transducer XL 290MSounds Good AI0.3B4.29—~24Aug 2, 2026leaderboard56Audio8 ASR 0.1BAutoArk AI0.3B4.39—~23Aug 2, 2026leaderboard57Canary 1b v2NVIDIA1B4.39—~7Aug 2, 2026leaderboard58Granite 4.0 1b SpeechIBM2.3B4.41—~3Aug 2, 2026leaderboard59omniASR CTC 7B v2Meta6.5B4.43——Aug 2, 2026leaderboard60Owsm CTC v3.2 ft 1BESPnet1B4.45—~7.1Aug 2, 2026leaderboard61Granite Speech 3.3 2bIBM3B4.52—~2.4Aug 2, 2026leaderboard62Whisper Large v3OpenAI1.5B4.53—~4.8Aug 2, 2026leaderboard63Granite Speech 3.3 8bIBM8.6B4.54—~0.84Aug 2, 2026leaderboard64Owsm CTC v3.1 1BESPnet1.1B4.58—~6.6Aug 2, 2026leaderboard65MOSS Transcribe Preview 2BOpenMOSS2.4B4.88—~3.2Aug 2, 2026leaderboard66MMS 1b AllMeta1B5.1—~8.1Aug 2, 2026leaderboard67Niagara 38m Batch.enApplied Brain Research38M5.16—~260Aug 2, 2026leaderboard68Cohere Transcribe 03 2026Cohere Labs2.1B5.38—~4.1Aug 2, 2026leaderboard69Niagara 19m Batch.enApplied Brain Research20M5.93—~590Aug 2, 2026leaderboard70Wav2vec2 Large 960h Lv60 SelfMeta0.3B6.27—~31Aug 2, 2026leaderboard71Moonshine TinyUseful Sensors30M6.52—~330Aug 2, 2026leaderboard72Whisper Large v3 TurboOpenAI0.8B7.02—~14Aug 2, 2026leaderboard73Hubert Large Ls960 ftMeta0.3B7.78—~39Aug 2, 2026leaderboard74Moonshine Streaming TinyUseful Sensors30M8.11—~410Aug 2, 2026leaderboard
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