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Accented speech76Clean read speech92European-accented speech92Financial calls92Harder read speech92Open ASR RTFx74Open ASR WER76Podcasts and video92Recorded meetings92
Podcasts and video
Word error rate on GigaSpeech — podcasts, YouTube and audiobooks together, which is the closest set to everyday internet audio — LOWER is betterProvenance92 modelsscores Aug 2, 2026 – Sep 28, 2026
1Hojo ASR V1Hojo AI5.2BScore6.14ScoredAug 2, 20262MOSS Transcribe Preview 2BOpenMOSS2.4BScore6.69ScoredAug 2, 20263Modulate MultilingualModulateScore6.91ScoredSep 11, 20264ARK ASR 3BAutoArk AI4.1BScore6.94ScoredAug 2, 20265Higgs Audio v3 8b STT v2Boson AI8.9BScore7.09ScoredAug 2, 20266Qwen3 ASR 1.7B HFQwen2BScore7.22ScoredSep 11, 20267Qwen3 ASR 1.7BQwen2.3BScore7.22ScoredAug 2, 20268Modulate VfastModulateScore7.25ScoredAug 2, 20269Azure Speech 06 2026MicrosoftScore7.26ScoredAug 2, 202610Solaria 3GladiaScore7.32ScoredAug 2, 202611ARK ASR 0.6BAutoArk AI1.3BScore7.37ScoredSep 11, 202612Resonant 1 FlashReson8Score7.38ScoredSep 11, 202613Resonant 1Reson8Score7.38ScoredSep 11, 202614Higgs Audio v3 STTBoson AI2.7BScore7.45ScoredAug 2, 202615Azure Speech 07 2026MicrosoftScore7.48ScoredSep 14, 202616sprag SymphonyspragScore7.52ScoredSep 28, 202617Universal 3 ProAssemblyAIScore7.54ScoredAug 2, 202618Qwen3 ASR 0.6B HFQwen0.8BScore7.62ScoredAug 2, 202619Qwen3 ASR 0.6BQwen0.9BScore7.62ScoredAug 2, 202620Universal 3 5 ProAssemblyAIScore7.62ScoredAug 2, 202621Scribe v2ElevenLabsScore7.63ScoredSep 11, 202622ASR K1 (preview)sopheaScore7.65ScoredSep 14, 202623MOSS Transcribe DiarizeOpenMOSS0.9BScore7.68ScoredSep 11, 202624Scribe v2 ProZoomScore7.75ScoredSep 11, 202625Parakeet TDT 0.6b v3 (fast Gpu Asr)NVIDIA0.6BScore7.75ScoredSep 28, 202626Muse Voice TranscribeMetaScore7.75ScoredSep 21, 202627Phi 4 Multimodal InstructMicrosoft5.6BScore7.79ScoredSep 11, 202628Canary Qwen 2.5bNVIDIA2.6BScore7.8ScoredSep 11, 202629Speechmatics EnhancedSpeechmaticsScore7.85ScoredSep 11, 202630VibeVoice ASR HFMicrosoft8.3BScore7.87ScoredAug 2, 202631Scribe v1ZoomScore7.87ScoredAug 2, 202632Cohere Transcribe 03 2026Cohere Labs2.1BScore7.88ScoredAug 2, 202633Nemotron Speech Streaming en 0.6bNVIDIA0.6BScore7.9ScoredSep 11, 202634Parakeet TDT 1.1bNVIDIA1.1BScore7.9ScoredAug 2, 202635Parakeet TDT 0.6b v3NVIDIA0.6BScore7.99ScoredSep 11, 202636GLM ASR Nano 2512Z.ai2.3BScore8.02ScoredAug 2, 202637Avalon v1 enAqua VoiceScore8.03ScoredAug 2, 202638Moonshine Streaming MediumUseful Sensors0.3BScore8.1ScoredAug 2, 202639Parakeet TDT 0.6b v2NVIDIA0.6BScore8.15ScoredAug 2, 202640Parakeet TDT 0.6b v2 (fast Gpu Asr)NVIDIA0.6BScore8.17ScoredSep 28, 202641Granite Speech 4.1 2bIBM2.3BScore8.18ScoredAug 2, 202642Smallest AI PulseSmallest AIScore8.18ScoredAug 2, 202643Canary 1b FlashNVIDIA0.8BScore8.19ScoredAug 2, 202644Distil Large v3.5Distil-Whisper0.8BScore8.21ScoredAug 2, 202645STT 2.6b enKyutai2.6BScore8.22ScoredAug 2, 202646Parakeet RNNT 1.1bNVIDIA1.1BScore8.22ScoredAug 2, 202647Zipformer cr CTC Transducer XL 290M (fast Gpu Asr, transducer Modified Beam Search)Sounds Good AI0.3BScore8.3ScoredSep 28, 202648Granite Speech 5.0 470m Turboctc ncIBM0.5BScore8.3ScoredSep 11, 202649Zipformer cr CTC Transducer XL 290MSounds Good AI0.3BScore8.32ScoredAug 2, 202650Voxtral Small 24B 2507Mistral AI24.3BScore8.33ScoredAug 2, 202651Whisper Large v3OpenAI1.5BScore8.35ScoredAug 2, 202652Fun ASR Nano 2512 HFFunAudioLLM0.8BScore8.41ScoredSep 14, 202653Granite 4.0 1b SpeechIBM2.3BScore8.44ScoredAug 2, 202654Parakeet RNNT 0.6bNVIDIA0.6BScore8.45ScoredAug 2, 202655Canary 1bNVIDIA1BScore8.47ScoredAug 2, 202656Whisper Large v3 TurboOpenAI0.8BScore8.47ScoredAug 2, 202657Audio8 ASR 0.1BAutoArk AI0.3BScore8.48ScoredAug 2, 202658Lite Whisper Large v3 AccEfficient Speech1.4BScore8.48ScoredAug 2, 202659Granite Speech 3.3 8bIBM8.6BScore8.58ScoredAug 2, 202660Granite Speech 4.1 2b NARIBM2.3BScore8.61ScoredSep 11, 202661Nyra Health CrisperWhisperNyra Health1.6BScore8.62ScoredAug 2, 202662Voxtral Mini 3B 2507Mistral AI4.7BScore8.7ScoredAug 2, 202663Granite Speech 5.0 470m TurboctcIBM0.5BScore8.74ScoredSep 11, 202664Parakeet CTC 1.1bNVIDIA1.1BScore8.74ScoredAug 2, 202665Voxtral Mini 4B Realtime 2602Mistral AI4.4BScore8.8ScoredAug 2, 202666Parakeet TDT CTC 110mNVIDIA0.1BScore8.83ScoredSep 11, 202667Canary 180m FlashNVIDIA0.2BScore8.87ScoredAug 2, 202668Parakeet CTC 0.6bNVIDIA0.6BScore8.9ScoredAug 2, 202669Moonshine Streaming SmallUseful Sensors0.1BScore9.03ScoredAug 2, 202670Granite Speech 3.3 2bIBM3BScore9.03ScoredAug 2, 202671Canary 1b v2NVIDIA1BScore9.12ScoredAug 2, 202672omniASR LLM 7B v2Meta7.8BScore9.2ScoredSep 11, 202673Zipformer Transducer XL 290MSounds Good AI0.3BScore9.21ScoredAug 2, 202674Owsm CTC v4 1BESPnet1BScore9.29ScoredAug 2, 202675Zipformer cr CTC Transducer XL 290M (fast Gpu Asr, ctc Greedy Search)Sounds Good AI0.3BScore9.52ScoredSep 28, 202676ASR Conformer LargescaleasrSpeechBrain0.5BScore9.7ScoredAug 2, 202677Nemotron 3.5 ASR Streaming 0.6bNVIDIA0.6BScore9.86ScoredAug 2, 202678Owsm CTC v3.2 ft 1BESPnet1BScore10.14ScoredAug 2, 202679Owsm CTC v3.1 1BESPnet1.1BScore10.35ScoredAug 2, 202680Niagara 84m Batch.enApplied Brain Research84MScore10.41ScoredSep 28, 202681Niagara 38m Batch.enApplied Brain Research38MScore11.38ScoredSep 11, 202682Gemma 4 E4B itGoogle8BScore11.74ScoredSep 14, 202683Moonshine Streaming TinyUseful Sensors0Score12.46ScoredAug 2, 202684Moonshine TinyUseful Sensors0Score12.6ScoredAug 2, 202685Niagara 19m Batch.enApplied Brain Research20MScore12.72ScoredSep 28, 202686omniASR CTC 7B v2Meta6.5BScore12.95ScoredAug 2, 202687Gemma 4 E2B itGoogle5.1BScore14.03ScoredSep 14, 202688Wav2vec2 Large 960h Lv60 SelfMeta0.3BScore14.76ScoredAug 2, 202689Niagara 9m Batch.enApplied Brain Research9MScore14.97ScoredSep 28, 202690Hubert Large Ls960 ftMeta0.3BScore16.02ScoredAug 2, 202691MMS 1b AllMeta1BScore17.15ScoredAug 2, 202692Gemma 4 12B itGoogle12BScore23.41ScoredSep 14, 2026
