Granite Speech 5.0: Transcribe, Translate, and Attribute more Accurately and Faster
We're excited to share three updates to IBM's Granite Speech collection: a new speech-language model, granite-speech-5.0-2b, and revised versions of two models the community already uses, granite-speech-5.0-470m-turboctc and granite-speech-4.1-2b-plus.
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Key points
- granite-speech-5.0-2b is the successor to granite-speech-4.1-2b at the same parameter count.
- What's new compared with 4.1 2B Speech:
- Chart 1: granite-speech-5.0-2b ranks #2 among top open-weight ASR models on average English WER (5.06%).
- IBM has released Granite Speech 5.0 2B, a new open speech-language model for transcription and translation.
Sources (2)
- [1]Granite Speech 5.0: Transcribe, Translate, and Attribute more Accurately and FasterHugging Face Blog · Oct 21, 02:58 PM
We're excited to share three updates to IBM's Granite Speech collection: a new speech-language model, granite-speech-5.0-2b, and revised versions of two models the community already uses, granite-speech-5.0-470m-turboctc and granite-speech-4.1-2b-plus.
granite-speech-5.0-2b is the successor to granite-speech-4.1-2b at the same parameter count.
- [2]IBM AI Releases Granite Speech 5.0 2B for Multilingual Transcription and TranslationMarkTechPost · Oct 22, 07:00 AM
IBM has released Granite Speech 5.0 2B, a new open speech-language model for transcription and translation.
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