
IBM Granite 4.0 1B Speech Tops OpenASR Leaderboard
IBM's new 1B-parameter speech model claims the top spot on the Open ASR Leaderboard while running on consumer hardware, beating Whisper Large V3 by 25% on word error rate.

IBM's new 1B-parameter speech model claims the top spot on the Open ASR Leaderboard while running on consumer hardware, beating Whisper Large V3 by 25% on word error rate.

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