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Accented speech76Clean read speech92European-accented speech92Financial calls92Harder read speech92Open ASR RTFx74Open ASR WER76Podcasts and video92Recorded meetings92
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 betterProvenance92 modelsscores Aug 2, 2026 – Sep 28, 2026
1Modulate MultilingualModulateScore0.87ScoredSep 11, 20262Modulate VfastModulateScore0.92ScoredAug 2, 20263Resonant 1Reson8Score0.92ScoredAug 2, 20264Resonant 1 FlashReson8Score0.95ScoredSep 11, 20265Higgs Audio v3 8b STT v2Boson AI8.9BScore0.96ScoredSep 11, 20266Cohere Transcribe 03 2026Cohere Labs2.1BScore0.97ScoredSep 11, 20267sprag SymphonyspragScore1ScoredSep 28, 20268Granite Speech 4.1 2bIBM2.3BScore1.03ScoredSep 11, 20269ARK ASR 3BAutoArk AI4.1BScore1.04ScoredSep 11, 202610Granite Speech 4.1 2b NARIBM2.3BScore1.04ScoredAug 2, 202611Parakeet TDT 1.1bNVIDIA1.1BScore1.05ScoredAug 2, 202612Scribe v2ElevenLabsScore1.06ScoredSep 11, 202613Higgs Audio v3 STTBoson AI2.7BScore1.08ScoredSep 11, 202614Scribe v1ZoomScore1.08ScoredSep 11, 202615Universal 3 ProAssemblyAIScore1.1ScoredAug 2, 202616Universal 3 5 ProAssemblyAIScore1.1ScoredAug 2, 202617Granite Speech 3.3 8bIBM8.6BScore1.11ScoredAug 2, 202618Scribe v2 ProZoomScore1.11ScoredSep 11, 202619Granite 4.0 1b SpeechIBM2.3BScore1.11ScoredSep 11, 202620MOSS Transcribe Preview 2BOpenMOSS2.4BScore1.15ScoredAug 2, 202621Parakeet RNNT 1.1bNVIDIA1.1BScore1.15ScoredAug 2, 202622Canary 1bNVIDIA1BScore1.16ScoredSep 11, 202623ASR K1 (preview)sopheaScore1.18ScoredSep 14, 202624Azure Speech 06 2026MicrosoftScore1.19ScoredAug 2, 202625Canary 1b FlashNVIDIA0.8BScore1.2ScoredAug 2, 202626Granite Speech 3.3 2bIBM3BScore1.21ScoredAug 2, 202627Azure Speech 07 2026MicrosoftScore1.23ScoredSep 14, 202628Canary Qwen 2.5bNVIDIA2.6BScore1.23ScoredAug 2, 202629Voxtral Small 24B 2507Mistral AI24.3BScore1.23ScoredAug 2, 202630Qwen3 ASR 1.7BQwen2.3BScore1.24ScoredAug 2, 202631Parakeet RNNT 0.6bNVIDIA0.6BScore1.25ScoredAug 2, 202632Qwen3 ASR 1.7B HFQwen2BScore1.26ScoredAug 2, 202633Parakeet TDT 0.6b v2 (fast Gpu Asr)NVIDIA0.6BScore1.27ScoredSep 28, 202634Avalon v1 enAqua VoiceScore1.27ScoredAug 2, 202635Parakeet TDT 0.6b v2NVIDIA0.6BScore1.28ScoredSep 11, 202636Smallest AI PulseSmallest AIScore1.3ScoredAug 2, 202637Hojo ASR V1Hojo AI5.2BScore1.3ScoredAug 2, 202638Zipformer cr CTC Transducer XL 290MSounds Good AI0.3BScore1.31ScoredAug 2, 202639Zipformer cr CTC Transducer XL 290M (fast Gpu Asr, transducer Modified Beam Search)Sounds Good AI0.3BScore1.31ScoredSep 28, 202640Solaria 3GladiaScore1.31ScoredAug 2, 202641omniASR LLM 7B v2Meta7.8BScore1.35ScoredAug 2, 202642Phi 4 Multimodal InstructMicrosoft5.6BScore1.35ScoredAug 2, 202643Wav2vec2 Large 960h Lv60 SelfMeta0.3BScore1.36ScoredAug 2, 202644Granite Speech 5.0 470m Turboctc ncIBM0.5BScore1.38ScoredSep 11, 202645STT 2.6b enKyutai2.6BScore1.38ScoredSep 11, 202646Parakeet TDT 0.6b v3 (fast Gpu Asr)NVIDIA0.6BScore1.46ScoredSep 28, 202647Fun ASR Nano 2512 HFFunAudioLLM0.8BScore1.47ScoredSep 14, 202648Voxtral Mini 3B 2507Mistral AI4.7BScore1.48ScoredSep 11, 202649Granite Speech 5.0 470m TurboctcIBM0.5BScore1.48ScoredSep 11, 202650ARK ASR 0.6BAutoArk AI1.3BScore1.48ScoredSep 11, 202651Parakeet CTC 1.1bNVIDIA1.1BScore1.52ScoredAug 2, 202652Canary 180m FlashNVIDIA0.2BScore1.52ScoredAug 2, 202653Parakeet TDT 0.6b v3NVIDIA0.6BScore1.52ScoredSep 11, 202654Hubert Large Ls960 ftMeta0.3BScore1.55ScoredAug 2, 202655Whisper Large v3OpenAI1.5BScore1.56ScoredSep 11, 202656VibeVoice ASR HFMicrosoft8.3BScore1.56ScoredSep 11, 202657Parakeet CTC 0.6bNVIDIA0.6BScore1.57ScoredAug 2, 202658Voxtral Mini 4B Realtime 2602Mistral AI4.4BScore1.62ScoredSep 11, 202659Lite Whisper Large v3 AccEfficient Speech1.4BScore1.63ScoredAug 2, 202660MOSS Transcribe DiarizeOpenMOSS0.9BScore1.66ScoredAug 2, 202661Moonshine Streaming MediumUseful Sensors0.3BScore1.67ScoredAug 2, 202662Zipformer Transducer XL 290MSounds Good AI0.3BScore1.68ScoredSep 11, 202663Qwen3 ASR 0.6BQwen0.9BScore1.69ScoredAug 2, 202664Qwen3 ASR 0.6B HFQwen0.8BScore1.7ScoredAug 2, 202665GLM ASR Nano 2512Z.ai2.3BScore1.7ScoredSep 11, 202666Zipformer cr CTC Transducer XL 290M (fast Gpu Asr, ctc Greedy Search)Sounds Good AI0.3BScore1.71ScoredSep 28, 202667Speechmatics EnhancedSpeechmaticsScore1.75ScoredSep 11, 202668Canary 1b v2NVIDIA1BScore1.76ScoredAug 2, 202669ASR Conformer LargescaleasrSpeechBrain0.5BScore1.83ScoredAug 2, 202670Muse Voice TranscribeMetaScore1.84ScoredSep 21, 202671Nemotron Speech Streaming en 0.6bNVIDIA0.6BScore1.89ScoredSep 11, 202672Owsm CTC v3.1 1BESPnet1.1BScore1.9ScoredAug 2, 202673Distil Large v3.5Distil-Whisper0.8BScore1.94ScoredSep 11, 202674Nyra Health CrisperWhisperNyra Health1.6BScore1.99ScoredAug 2, 202675Parakeet TDT CTC 110mNVIDIA0.1BScore2.01ScoredAug 2, 202676Moonshine Streaming SmallUseful Sensors0.1BScore2.07ScoredAug 2, 202677Owsm CTC v4 1BESPnet1BScore2.11ScoredSep 11, 202678omniASR CTC 7B v2Meta6.5BScore2.12ScoredAug 2, 202679Whisper Large v3 TurboOpenAI0.8BScore2.13ScoredAug 2, 202680Owsm CTC v3.2 ft 1BESPnet1BScore2.17ScoredAug 2, 202681Audio8 ASR 0.1BAutoArk AI0.3BScore2.71ScoredSep 11, 202682Nemotron 3.5 ASR Streaming 0.6bNVIDIA0.6BScore2.83ScoredAug 2, 202683Niagara 84m Batch.enApplied Brain Research84MScore3.09ScoredSep 28, 202684MMS 1b AllMeta1BScore3.14ScoredAug 2, 202685Niagara 38m Batch.enApplied Brain Research38MScore3.81ScoredSep 11, 202686Gemma 4 E4B itGoogle8BScore3.85ScoredSep 14, 202687Moonshine Streaming TinyUseful Sensors0Score3.98ScoredAug 2, 202688Moonshine TinyUseful Sensors0Score4.08ScoredAug 2, 202689Niagara 19m Batch.enApplied Brain Research20MScore4.74ScoredSep 28, 202690Gemma 4 E2B itGoogle5.1BScore5.53ScoredSep 14, 202691Niagara 9m Batch.enApplied Brain Research9MScore6.45ScoredSep 28, 202692Gemma 4 12B itGoogle12BScore8.19ScoredSep 14, 2026
