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Granite Speech 4.1 2B
IBM's Apache-2.0 open-weights multilingual speech recognition models in the Granite family.
- IBM
- Open weights
- Released Apr 2026
Where it ranks
- ATranscriptionModels · Local · 6% on Hugging Face Open ASR Leaderboard (English, short-form average WER) (secondary benchmark)
Facts
- Vendor
- IBM
- Family
- Granite Speech
- Released
- Apr 2026
- Weights
- Open: download and run it yourself
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Parameters
- 2.31B
- GPU memory to run locally
- ~6 GB (Derived: 2.31B parameters (Hugging Face safetensors count) x 2 bytes = ~4.6 GB of bf16 weights.)
- Access
- Free (open weights)
- Last verified
- 18 Oct 2026
Benchmark results
| Benchmark | Result | Entry on the leaderboard | As of | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hugging Face Open ASR Leaderboard (English, short-form average WER) | 6% | ibm-granite/granite-speech-4.1-2bAverage WER over the board's default datasets (English short-form, version 17-10-2026); rank 19; read from the Space's initial table data. | 17 Oct 2026 | huggingface.co |
Where you can use it
No tracked tool lists this model yet; as open weights it runs in local runtimes.