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Accented speech76Clean read speech92European-accented speech92Financial calls92Harder read speech92Open ASR RTFx74Open ASR WER76Podcasts and video92Recorded meetings92
European-accented speech
Word error rate on VoxPopuli — European Parliament proceedings in English, mostly from non-native speakers — LOWER is betterProvenance92 modelsscores Aug 2, 2026 – Sep 28, 2026
1Scribe v2ElevenLabsScore1.41ScoredAug 2, 20262Azure Speech 07 2026MicrosoftScore1.65ScoredSep 14, 20263Universal 3 ProAssemblyAIScore1.83ScoredAug 2, 20264Avalon v1 enAqua VoiceScore1.86ScoredAug 2, 20265Universal 3 5 ProAssemblyAIScore1.92ScoredAug 2, 20266Voxtral Small 24B 2507Mistral AI24.3BScore2ScoredAug 2, 20267Muse Voice TranscribeMetaScore2.02ScoredSep 21, 20268VibeVoice ASR HFMicrosoft8.3BScore2.02ScoredAug 2, 20269GLM ASR Nano 2512Z.ai2.3BScore2.05ScoredAug 2, 202610Resonant 1Reson8Score2.19ScoredAug 2, 202611Resonant 1 FlashReson8Score2.19ScoredAug 2, 202612Voxtral Mini 3B 2507Mistral AI4.7BScore2.22ScoredAug 2, 202613Nemotron Speech Streaming en 0.6bNVIDIA0.6BScore2.4ScoredAug 2, 202614Distil Large v3.5Distil-Whisper0.8BScore2.52ScoredAug 2, 202615Voxtral Mini 4B Realtime 2602Mistral AI4.4BScore2.6ScoredAug 2, 202616ARK ASR 0.6BAutoArk AI1.3BScore2.76ScoredAug 2, 202617Solaria 3GladiaScore2.76ScoredAug 2, 202618Speechmatics EnhancedSpeechmaticsScore2.83ScoredAug 2, 202619Qwen3 ASR 1.7B HFQwen2BScore2.85ScoredAug 2, 202620ASR K1 (preview)sopheaScore2.88ScoredSep 14, 202621Qwen3 ASR 0.6B HFQwen0.8BScore2.9ScoredAug 2, 202622Higgs Audio v3 8b STT v2Boson AI8.9BScore2.94ScoredAug 2, 202623Qwen3 ASR 1.7BQwen2.3BScore3.01ScoredAug 2, 202624Parakeet TDT 0.6b v3 (fast Gpu Asr)NVIDIA0.6BScore3.04ScoredSep 28, 202625Qwen3 ASR 0.6BQwen0.9BScore3.07ScoredAug 2, 202626Scribe v2 ProZoomScore3.08ScoredSep 11, 202627Hojo ASR V1Hojo AI5.2BScore3.11ScoredAug 2, 202628Parakeet TDT 0.6b v3NVIDIA0.6BScore3.19ScoredAug 2, 202629Parakeet CTC 0.6bNVIDIA0.6BScore3.19ScoredAug 2, 202630Parakeet CTC 1.1bNVIDIA1.1BScore3.24ScoredAug 2, 202631sprag SymphonyspragScore3.33ScoredSep 28, 202632Lite Whisper Large v3 AccEfficient Speech1.4BScore3.35ScoredAug 2, 202633Moonshine Streaming MediumUseful Sensors0.3BScore3.37ScoredAug 2, 202634Fun ASR Nano 2512 HFFunAudioLLM0.8BScore3.4ScoredSep 14, 202635Parakeet RNNT 0.6bNVIDIA0.6BScore3.41ScoredAug 2, 202636STT 2.6b enKyutai2.6BScore3.53ScoredAug 2, 202637Modulate MultilingualModulateScore3.55ScoredSep 11, 202638ARK ASR 3BAutoArk AI4.1BScore3.55ScoredAug 2, 202639Canary 180m FlashNVIDIA0.2BScore3.57ScoredAug 2, 202640MOSS Transcribe DiarizeOpenMOSS0.9BScore3.6ScoredAug 2, 202641Parakeet TDT 1.1bNVIDIA1.1BScore3.62ScoredAug 2, 202642Parakeet RNNT 1.1bNVIDIA1.1BScore3.64ScoredAug 2, 202643Parakeet TDT CTC 110mNVIDIA0.1BScore3.72ScoredAug 2, 202644Higgs Audio v3 STTBoson AI2.7BScore3.73ScoredAug 2, 202645Modulate VfastModulateScore3.74ScoredAug 2, 202646Moonshine Streaming SmallUseful Sensors0.1BScore3.76ScoredAug 2, 202647Parakeet TDT 0.6b v2NVIDIA0.6BScore3.78ScoredAug 2, 202648Smallest AI PulseSmallest AIScore3.85ScoredAug 2, 202649Azure Speech 06 2026MicrosoftScore3.87ScoredAug 2, 202650Parakeet TDT 0.6b v2 (fast Gpu Asr)NVIDIA0.6BScore3.89ScoredSep 28, 202651Scribe v1ZoomScore3.95ScoredAug 2, 202652Canary 1bNVIDIA1BScore4.01ScoredAug 2, 202653omniASR LLM 7B v2Meta7.8BScore4.03ScoredAug 2, 202654ASR Conformer LargescaleasrSpeechBrain0.5BScore4.06ScoredAug 2, 202655Zipformer Transducer XL 290MSounds Good AI0.3BScore4.08ScoredAug 2, 202656Gemma 4 E4B itGoogle8BScore4.09ScoredSep 14, 202657Owsm CTC v4 1BESPnet1BScore4.09ScoredAug 2, 202658Canary Qwen 2.5bNVIDIA2.6BScore4.14ScoredAug 2, 202659Canary 1b FlashNVIDIA0.8BScore4.17ScoredAug 2, 202660Gemma 4 12B itGoogle12BScore4.18ScoredSep 14, 202661Phi 4 Multimodal InstructMicrosoft5.6BScore4.18ScoredAug 2, 202662Granite Speech 4.1 2bIBM2.3BScore4.18ScoredAug 2, 202663Nemotron 3.5 ASR Streaming 0.6bNVIDIA0.6BScore4.24ScoredAug 2, 202664Granite Speech 4.1 2b NARIBM2.3BScore4.25ScoredAug 2, 202665Nyra Health CrisperWhisperNyra Health1.6BScore4.27ScoredAug 2, 202666Zipformer cr CTC Transducer XL 290MSounds Good AI0.3BScore4.29ScoredAug 2, 202667Zipformer cr CTC Transducer XL 290M (fast Gpu Asr, transducer Modified Beam Search)Sounds Good AI0.3BScore4.31ScoredSep 28, 202668Niagara 84m Batch.enApplied Brain Research84MScore4.33ScoredSep 28, 202669Audio8 ASR 0.1BAutoArk AI0.3BScore4.39ScoredAug 2, 202670Canary 1b v2NVIDIA1BScore4.39ScoredAug 2, 202671Granite 4.0 1b SpeechIBM2.3BScore4.41ScoredAug 2, 202672omniASR CTC 7B v2Meta6.5BScore4.43ScoredAug 2, 202673Owsm CTC v3.2 ft 1BESPnet1BScore4.45ScoredAug 2, 202674Granite Speech 3.3 2bIBM3BScore4.52ScoredAug 2, 202675Zipformer cr CTC Transducer XL 290M (fast Gpu Asr, ctc Greedy Search)Sounds Good AI0.3BScore4.53ScoredSep 28, 202676Whisper Large v3OpenAI1.5BScore4.53ScoredAug 2, 202677Granite Speech 3.3 8bIBM8.6BScore4.54ScoredAug 2, 202678Owsm CTC v3.1 1BESPnet1.1BScore4.58ScoredAug 2, 202679Granite Speech 5.0 470m Turboctc ncIBM0.5BScore4.65ScoredSep 11, 202680MOSS Transcribe Preview 2BOpenMOSS2.4BScore4.88ScoredAug 2, 202681Granite Speech 5.0 470m TurboctcIBM0.5BScore4.88ScoredSep 11, 202682MMS 1b AllMeta1BScore5.1ScoredAug 2, 202683Niagara 38m Batch.enApplied Brain Research38MScore5.16ScoredAug 2, 202684Cohere Transcribe 03 2026Cohere Labs2.1BScore5.38ScoredAug 2, 202685Gemma 4 E2B itGoogle5.1BScore5.66ScoredSep 14, 202686Niagara 19m Batch.enApplied Brain Research20MScore5.73ScoredSep 28, 202687Wav2vec2 Large 960h Lv60 SelfMeta0.3BScore6.27ScoredAug 2, 202688Moonshine TinyUseful Sensors0Score6.52ScoredAug 2, 202689Whisper Large v3 TurboOpenAI0.8BScore7.02ScoredAug 2, 202690Niagara 9m Batch.enApplied Brain Research9MScore7.33ScoredSep 28, 202691Hubert Large Ls960 ftMeta0.3BScore7.78ScoredAug 2, 202692Moonshine Streaming TinyUseful Sensors0Score8.11ScoredAug 2, 2026
