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Accented speech74Clean read speech74European-accented speech74Financial calls74Harder read speech74Open ASR RTFx62Open ASR WER74Podcasts and video74Recorded meetings74
Clean read speech
Word error rate on LibriSpeech test-clean — audiobooks read aloud in good conditions. The easy case, and the floor every model should clear — LOWER is betterlower is betterProvenanceindependent leaderboard74 modelsscores Aug 2, 2026
1Modulate VfastModulate0.92——Aug 2, 2026leaderboard2Resonant 1Reson80.92——Aug 2, 2026leaderboard3Resonant 1 FlashReson80.94——Aug 2, 2026leaderboard4Higgs Audio v3 8b STT v2Boson AI8.9B0.95—~0.17Aug 2, 2026leaderboard5Cohere Transcribe 03 2026Cohere Labs2.1B0.96—~0.73Aug 2, 2026leaderboard6Granite Speech 4.1 2bIBM2.3B1.02—~0.7Aug 2, 2026leaderboard7ARK ASR 3BAutoArk AI4.1B1.03—~0.4Aug 2, 2026leaderboard8Granite Speech 4.1 2b NARIBM2.3B1.04—~0.72Aug 2, 2026leaderboard9Scribe v2ElevenLabs1.05——Aug 2, 2026leaderboard10Parakeet TDT 1.1bNVIDIA1.1B1.05—~1.5Aug 2, 2026leaderboard11Higgs Audio v3 STTBoson AI2.7B1.07—~0.63Aug 2, 2026leaderboard12Granite 4.0 1b SpeechIBM2.3B1.1—~0.76Aug 2, 2026leaderboard13Universal 3 5 ProAssemblyAI1.1——Aug 2, 2026leaderboard14Universal 3 ProAssemblyAI1.1——Aug 2, 2026leaderboard15Granite Speech 3.3 8bIBM8.6B1.11—~0.2Aug 2, 2026leaderboard16Scribe v1Zoom1.12——Aug 2, 2026leaderboard17Parakeet RNNT 1.1bNVIDIA1.1B1.15—~1.7Aug 2, 2026leaderboard18Canary 1bNVIDIA1B1.15—~1.8Aug 2, 2026leaderboard19MOSS Transcribe Preview 2BOpenMOSS2.4B1.15—~0.76Aug 2, 2026leaderboard20Azure Speech 06 2026Microsoft1.19——Aug 2, 2026leaderboard21Canary 1b FlashNVIDIA1B1.2—~1.9Aug 2, 2026leaderboard22Granite Speech 3.3 2bIBM3B1.21—~0.64Aug 2, 2026leaderboard23Canary Qwen 2.5bNVIDIA2.6B1.23—~0.75Aug 2, 2026leaderboard24Voxtral Small 24B 2507Mistral AI24.3B1.234~0.08Aug 2, 2026leaderboard25Qwen3 ASR 1.7BQwen2B1.24—~0.96Aug 2, 2026leaderboard26Parakeet RNNT 0.6bNVIDIA0.6B1.25—~3.3Aug 2, 2026leaderboard27Qwen3 ASR 1.7B HFQwen2B1.26—~0.98Aug 2, 2026leaderboard28Avalon v1 enAqua Voice1.27——Aug 2, 2026leaderboard29Parakeet TDT 0.6b v2NVIDIA0.6B1.27—~3.3Aug 2, 2026leaderboard30Hojo ASR V1Hojo AI5.2B1.3—~0.4Aug 2, 2026leaderboard31Smallest AI PulseSmallest AI1.3——Aug 2, 2026leaderboard32Zipformer cr CTC Transducer XL 290MSounds Good AI0.3B1.31—~7.3Aug 2, 2026leaderboard33Solaria 3Gladia1.31——Aug 2, 2026leaderboard34omniASR LLM 7B v2Meta7.8B1.35——Aug 2, 2026leaderboard35Phi 4 Multimodal InstructMicrosoft5.6B1.35—~0.38Aug 2, 2026leaderboard36Wav2vec2 Large 960h Lv60 SelfMeta0.3B1.36—~6.8Aug 2, 2026leaderboard37STT 2.6b enKyutai2.6B1.37—~0.84Aug 2, 2026leaderboard38Voxtral Mini 3B 2507Mistral AI5B1.47—~0.47Aug 2, 2026leaderboard39ARK ASR 0.6BAutoArk AI1.3B1.47—~1.8Aug 2, 2026leaderboard40Parakeet TDT 0.6b v3NVIDIA0.6B1.51—~4Aug 2, 2026leaderboard41Canary 180m FlashNVIDIA0.2B1.52—~14Aug 2, 2026leaderboard42Parakeet CTC 1.1bNVIDIA1.1B1.52—~2.2Aug 2, 2026leaderboard43VibeVoice ASR HFMicrosoft8.3B1.55—~0.3Aug 2, 2026leaderboard44Hubert Large Ls960 ftMeta0.3B1.55—~7.8Aug 2, 2026leaderboard45Whisper Large v3OpenAI1.5B1.55—~1.6Aug 2, 2026leaderboard46Parakeet CTC 0.6bNVIDIA0.6B1.57—~4.1Aug 2, 2026leaderboard47Voxtral Mini 4B Realtime 2602Mistral AI4.4B1.61—~0.58Aug 2, 2026leaderboard48Lite Whisper Large v3 AccEfficient Speech1.4B1.63—~1.9Aug 2, 2026leaderboard49MOSS Transcribe DiarizeOpenMOSS0.9B1.66—~2.9Aug 2, 2026leaderboard50Zipformer Transducer XL 290MSounds Good AI0.3B1.67—~9.3Aug 2, 2026leaderboard51Moonshine Streaming MediumUseful Sensors0.2B1.67—~11Aug 2, 2026leaderboard52GLM ASR Nano 2512Z.ai2.3B1.69—~1.2Aug 2, 2026leaderboard53Qwen3 ASR 0.6BQwen0.8B1.69—~3.4Aug 2, 2026leaderboard54Qwen3 ASR 0.6B HFQwen0.8B1.7—~3.4Aug 2, 2026leaderboard55Speechmatics EnhancedSpeechmatics1.73——Aug 2, 2026leaderboard56Canary 1b v2NVIDIA1B1.76—~2.8Aug 2, 2026leaderboard57ASR Conformer LargescaleasrSpeechBrain0.5B1.83—~6.1Aug 2, 2026leaderboard58Nemotron Speech Streaming en 0.6bNVIDIA0.6B1.88—~4.9Aug 2, 2026leaderboard59Owsm CTC v3.1 1BESPnet1.1B1.9—~2.8Aug 2, 2026leaderboard60Distil Large v3.5Distil-Whisper0.8B1.93—~3.9Aug 2, 2026leaderboard61Nyra Health CrisperWhisperNyra Health1.6B1.99—~2Aug 2, 2026leaderboard62Parakeet TDT CTC 110mNVIDIA0.1B2.01—~29Aug 2, 2026leaderboard63Moonshine Streaming SmallUseful Sensors0.1B2.07—~35Aug 2, 2026leaderboard64Owsm CTC v4 1BESPnet1B2.1—~3.3Aug 2, 2026leaderboard65omniASR CTC 7B v2Meta6.5B2.12——Aug 2, 2026leaderboard66Whisper Large v3 TurboOpenAI0.8B2.13—~4.3Aug 2, 2026leaderboard67Owsm CTC v3.2 ft 1BESPnet1B2.17—~3.4Aug 2, 2026leaderboard68Audio8 ASR 0.1BAutoArk AI0.3B2.7—~14Aug 2, 2026leaderboard69Nemotron 3.5 ASR Streaming 0.6bNVIDIA0.6B2.83—~7.1Aug 2, 2026leaderboard70MMS 1b AllMeta1B3.14—~5Aug 2, 2026leaderboard71Niagara 38m Batch.enApplied Brain Research38M3.75—~190Aug 2, 2026leaderboard72Moonshine Streaming TinyUseful Sensors30M3.98—~200Aug 2, 2026leaderboard73Moonshine TinyUseful Sensors30M4.08—~200Aug 2, 2026leaderboard74Niagara 19m Batch.enApplied Brain Research20M4.45—~450Aug 2, 2026leaderboard
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