Leaderboards
Benchmarks
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Accented speech76Clean read speech92European-accented speech92Financial calls92Harder read speech92Open ASR RTFx74Open ASR WER76Podcasts and video92Recorded meetings92
Harder read speech
Word error rate on LibriSpeech test-other — the same reading task on noisier, more accented recordings — LOWER is betterProvenance92 modelsscores Aug 2, 2026 – Sep 28, 2026
1Modulate MultilingualModulateScore1.77ScoredSep 11, 20262Modulate VfastModulateScore1.88ScoredAug 2, 20263Cohere Transcribe 03 2026Cohere Labs2.1BScore2.05ScoredSep 11, 20264Higgs Audio v3 8b STT v2Boson AI8.9BScore2.06ScoredSep 11, 20265Scribe v1ZoomScore2.09ScoredSep 11, 20266Resonant 1Reson8Score2.09ScoredSep 11, 20267Universal 3 5 ProAssemblyAIScore2.11ScoredSep 11, 20268Parakeet RNNT 1.1bNVIDIA1.1BScore2.12ScoredSep 11, 20269Resonant 1 FlashReson8Score2.14ScoredSep 11, 202610Granite Speech 4.1 2bIBM2.3BScore2.19ScoredSep 11, 202611sprag SymphonyspragScore2.19ScoredSep 28, 202612Parakeet TDT 1.1bNVIDIA1.1BScore2.22ScoredAug 2, 202613Scribe v2 ProZoomScore2.24ScoredSep 11, 202614Universal 3 ProAssemblyAIScore2.27ScoredAug 2, 202615Scribe v2ElevenLabsScore2.33ScoredSep 11, 202616ARK ASR 3BAutoArk AI4.1BScore2.37ScoredSep 11, 202617Granite Speech 4.1 2b NARIBM2.3BScore2.4ScoredAug 2, 202618Azure Speech 06 2026MicrosoftScore2.5ScoredSep 11, 202619Granite 4.0 1b SpeechIBM2.3BScore2.5ScoredSep 11, 202620Canary 1b FlashNVIDIA0.8BScore2.52ScoredAug 2, 202621Granite Speech 3.3 8bIBM8.6BScore2.52ScoredAug 2, 202622Canary 1bNVIDIA1BScore2.54ScoredSep 11, 202623Granite Speech 5.0 470m Turboctc ncIBM0.5BScore2.61ScoredSep 11, 202624Higgs Audio v3 STTBoson AI2.7BScore2.61ScoredSep 11, 202625Canary Qwen 2.5bNVIDIA2.6BScore2.63ScoredSep 11, 202626Parakeet RNNT 0.6bNVIDIA0.6BScore2.65ScoredSep 11, 202627Parakeet TDT 0.6b v2 (fast Gpu Asr)NVIDIA0.6BScore2.65ScoredSep 28, 202628ASR K1 (preview)sopheaScore2.68ScoredSep 14, 202629Smallest AI PulseSmallest AIScore2.7ScoredAug 2, 202630Azure Speech 07 2026MicrosoftScore2.71ScoredSep 14, 202631Parakeet TDT 0.6b v2NVIDIA0.6BScore2.73ScoredAug 2, 202632Granite Speech 5.0 470m TurboctcIBM0.5BScore2.73ScoredSep 11, 202633Voxtral Small 24B 2507Mistral AI24.3BScore2.8ScoredSep 11, 202634MOSS Transcribe Preview 2BOpenMOSS2.4BScore2.81ScoredSep 11, 202635Granite Speech 3.3 2bIBM3BScore2.85ScoredSep 11, 202636Avalon v1 enAqua VoiceScore2.87ScoredAug 2, 202637Qwen3 ASR 1.7BQwen2.3BScore2.92ScoredAug 2, 202638Qwen3 ASR 1.7B HFQwen2BScore2.94ScoredSep 11, 202639Solaria 3GladiaScore2.99ScoredSep 11, 202640Zipformer cr CTC Transducer XL 290MSounds Good AI0.3BScore3.01ScoredAug 2, 202641Zipformer cr CTC Transducer XL 290M (fast Gpu Asr, transducer Modified Beam Search)Sounds Good AI0.3BScore3.03ScoredSep 28, 202642Canary 1b v2NVIDIA1BScore3.07ScoredAug 2, 202643Parakeet TDT 0.6b v3 (fast Gpu Asr)NVIDIA0.6BScore3.08ScoredSep 28, 202644Parakeet TDT 0.6b v3NVIDIA0.6BScore3.13ScoredSep 11, 202645Parakeet CTC 1.1bNVIDIA1.1BScore3.23ScoredAug 2, 202646Hojo ASR V1Hojo AI5.2BScore3.24ScoredAug 2, 202647omniASR LLM 7B v2Meta7.8BScore3.25ScoredAug 2, 202648Wav2vec2 Large 960h Lv60 SelfMeta0.3BScore3.33ScoredAug 2, 202649Canary 180m FlashNVIDIA0.2BScore3.42ScoredSep 11, 202650Parakeet CTC 0.6bNVIDIA0.6BScore3.42ScoredSep 11, 202651ARK ASR 0.6BAutoArk AI1.3BScore3.44ScoredAug 2, 202652Phi 4 Multimodal InstructMicrosoft5.6BScore3.45ScoredAug 2, 202653Lite Whisper Large v3 AccEfficient Speech1.4BScore3.5ScoredAug 2, 202654Whisper Large v3OpenAI1.5BScore3.52ScoredAug 2, 202655Voxtral Mini 3B 2507Mistral AI4.7BScore3.63ScoredSep 11, 202656Hubert Large Ls960 ftMeta0.3BScore3.65ScoredAug 2, 202657Whisper Large v3 TurboOpenAI0.8BScore3.71ScoredSep 11, 202658GLM ASR Nano 2512Z.ai2.3BScore3.83ScoredSep 11, 202659Zipformer cr CTC Transducer XL 290M (fast Gpu Asr, ctc Greedy Search)Sounds Good AI0.3BScore3.89ScoredSep 28, 202660Nyra Health CrisperWhisperNyra Health1.6BScore3.95ScoredAug 2, 202661Qwen3 ASR 0.6BQwen0.9BScore3.97ScoredAug 2, 202662STT 2.6b enKyutai2.6BScore3.99ScoredAug 2, 202663Qwen3 ASR 0.6B HFQwen0.8BScore4.01ScoredAug 2, 202664Fun ASR Nano 2512 HFFunAudioLLM0.8BScore4.07ScoredSep 14, 202665ASR Conformer LargescaleasrSpeechBrain0.5BScore4.12ScoredAug 2, 202666MOSS Transcribe DiarizeOpenMOSS0.9BScore4.16ScoredSep 11, 202667Speechmatics EnhancedSpeechmaticsScore4.28ScoredSep 11, 202668Nemotron Speech Streaming en 0.6bNVIDIA0.6BScore4.35ScoredSep 11, 202669Owsm CTC v4 1BESPnet1BScore4.38ScoredSep 11, 202670Muse Voice TranscribeMetaScore4.51ScoredSep 21, 202671Distil Large v3.5Distil-Whisper0.8BScore4.52ScoredSep 11, 202672Zipformer Transducer XL 290MSounds Good AI0.3BScore4.56ScoredSep 11, 202673Moonshine Streaming MediumUseful Sensors0.3BScore4.6ScoredAug 2, 202674Owsm CTC v3.1 1BESPnet1.1BScore4.65ScoredAug 2, 202675Parakeet TDT CTC 110mNVIDIA0.1BScore4.72ScoredSep 11, 202676Owsm CTC v3.2 ft 1BESPnet1BScore4.82ScoredAug 2, 202677Voxtral Mini 4B Realtime 2602Mistral AI4.4BScore4.94ScoredSep 11, 202678VibeVoice ASR HFMicrosoft8.3BScore4.95ScoredSep 11, 202679omniASR CTC 7B v2Meta6.5BScore5.05ScoredAug 2, 202680Moonshine Streaming SmallUseful Sensors0.1BScore6.37ScoredAug 2, 202681Audio8 ASR 0.1BAutoArk AI0.3BScore6.6ScoredSep 11, 202682Nemotron 3.5 ASR Streaming 0.6bNVIDIA0.6BScore6.79ScoredSep 11, 202683MMS 1b AllMeta1BScore7.2ScoredAug 2, 202684Niagara 84m Batch.enApplied Brain Research84MScore7.6ScoredSep 28, 202685Niagara 38m Batch.enApplied Brain Research38MScore9.28ScoredSep 11, 202686Gemma 4 E4B itGoogle8BScore9.97ScoredSep 14, 202687Gemma 4 E2B itGoogle5.1BScore10.77ScoredSep 14, 202688Niagara 19m Batch.enApplied Brain Research20MScore11.02ScoredSep 28, 202689Moonshine TinyUseful Sensors0Score11.07ScoredSep 11, 202690Moonshine Streaming TinyUseful Sensors0Score11.55ScoredSep 11, 202691Gemma 4 12B itGoogle12BScore13.41ScoredSep 14, 202692Niagara 9m Batch.enApplied Brain Research9MScore14.53ScoredSep 28, 2026
