Leaderboards
Benchmarks
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Accented speech74Clean read speech74European-accented speech74Financial calls74Harder read speech74Open ASR RTFx62Open ASR WER74Podcasts and video74Recorded meetings74
Open ASR WER
Word error rate, %, averaged over nine English test sets on the Open ASR Leaderboard — LOWER is better, unlike every other benchmark herelower is betterProvenanceindependent leaderboard74 modelsscores Aug 1, 2026
1Modulate VfastModulate4.43——Aug 1, 2026leaderboard2Hojo ASR V1Hojo AI5.2B4.458571429—~1.4Aug 1, 2026leaderboard3Azure Speech 06 2026Microsoft4.512857143——Aug 1, 2026leaderboard4Resonant 1Reson84.622857143——Aug 1, 2026leaderboard5Higgs Audio v3 STTBoson AI2.7B4.624285714—~2.7Aug 1, 2026leaderboard6ARK ASR 3BAutoArk AI4.1B4.635714286—~1.8Aug 1, 2026leaderboard7Scribe v2ElevenLabs4.647142857——Aug 1, 2026leaderboard8Scribe v1Zoom4.651428571——Aug 1, 2026leaderboard9Resonant 1 FlashReson84.66——Aug 1, 2026leaderboard10MOSS Transcribe Preview 2BOpenMOSS2.4B4.664285714—~3.1Aug 1, 2026leaderboard11Higgs Audio v3 8b STT v2Boson AI8.9B4.725714286—~0.84Aug 1, 2026leaderboard12Granite Speech 4.1 2bIBM2.3B4.901428571—~3.4Aug 1, 2026leaderboard13Granite Speech 4.1 2b NARIBM2.3B4.95—~3.4Aug 1, 2026leaderboard14Qwen3 ASR 1.7B HFQwen2B4.981428571—~3.9Aug 1, 2026leaderboard15Qwen3 ASR 1.7BQwen2B5.022857143—~3.9Aug 1, 2026leaderboard16Universal 3 5 ProAssemblyAI5.028571429——Aug 1, 2026leaderboard17Canary Qwen 2.5bNVIDIA2.6B5.064285714—~3.1Aug 1, 2026leaderboard18Granite 4.0 1b SpeechIBM2.3B5.098571429—~3.5Aug 1, 2026leaderboard19ARK ASR 0.6BAutoArk AI1.3B5.138571429—~6.3Aug 1, 2026leaderboard20MOSS Transcribe DiarizeOpenMOSS0.9B5.161428571—~9.1Aug 1, 2026leaderboard21Universal 3 ProAssemblyAI5.172857143——Aug 1, 2026leaderboard22Cohere Transcribe 03 2026Cohere Labs2.1B5.198571429—~3.9Aug 1, 2026leaderboard23Zipformer cr CTC Transducer XL 290MSounds Good AI0.3B5.212857143—~29Aug 1, 2026leaderboard24Avalon v1 enAqua Voice5.228571429——Aug 1, 2026leaderboard25Granite Speech 3.3 8bIBM8.6B5.294285714—~0.98Aug 1, 2026leaderboard26Solaria 3Gladia5.344285714——Aug 1, 2026leaderboard27Parakeet TDT 0.6b v2NVIDIA0.6B5.392857143—~14Aug 1, 2026leaderboard28Smallest AI PulseSmallest AI5.417142857——Aug 1, 2026leaderboard29Phi 4 Multimodal InstructMicrosoft5.6B5.424285714—~1.5Aug 1, 2026leaderboard30Granite Speech 3.3 2bIBM3B5.518571429—~2.9Aug 1, 2026leaderboard31Qwen3 ASR 0.6B HFQwen0.8B5.581428571—~11Aug 1, 2026leaderboard32Qwen3 ASR 0.6BQwen0.8B5.611428571—~11Aug 1, 2026leaderboard33Voxtral Small 24B 2507Mistral AI24.3B5.64714285719~0.37Aug 1, 2026leaderboard34Parakeet TDT 0.6b v3NVIDIA0.6B5.661428571—~15Aug 1, 2026leaderboard35Nemotron Speech Streaming en 0.6bNVIDIA0.6B5.725714286—~15Aug 1, 2026leaderboard36STT 2.6b enKyutai2.6B5.741428571—~3.5Aug 1, 2026leaderboard37Nyra Health CrisperWhisperNyra Health1.6B5.757142857—~5.7Aug 1, 2026leaderboard38Moonshine Streaming MediumUseful Sensors0.2B5.767142857—~38Aug 1, 2026leaderboard39Canary 1b FlashNVIDIA1B5.777142857—~9.2Aug 1, 2026leaderboard40Canary 1bNVIDIA1B5.788571429—~9.2Aug 1, 2026leaderboard41Speechmatics EnhancedSpeechmatics5.898571429——Aug 1, 2026leaderboard42GLM ASR Nano 2512Z.ai2.3B6.01—~4.1Aug 1, 2026leaderboard43Voxtral Mini 3B 2507Mistral AI5B6.011428571—~1.9Aug 1, 2026leaderboard44Distil Large v3.5Distil-Whisper0.8B6.1—~12Aug 1, 2026leaderboard45Zipformer Transducer XL 290MSounds Good AI0.3B6.175714286—~34Aug 1, 2026leaderboard46Parakeet TDT 1.1bNVIDIA1.1B6.232857143—~9Aug 1, 2026leaderboard47Lite Whisper Large v3 AccEfficient Speech1.4B6.28—~7.1Aug 1, 2026leaderboard48Canary 180m FlashNVIDIA0.2B6.287142857—~57Aug 1, 2026leaderboard49VibeVoice ASR HFMicrosoft8.3B6.288571429—~1.2Aug 1, 2026leaderboard50Parakeet RNNT 1.1bNVIDIA1.1B6.375714286—~9.2Aug 1, 2026leaderboard51Canary 1b v2NVIDIA1B6.391428571—~10Aug 1, 2026leaderboard52Voxtral Mini 4B Realtime 2602Mistral AI4.4B6.422857143—~2.3Aug 1, 2026leaderboard53Parakeet CTC 1.1bNVIDIA1.1B6.497142857—~9.4Aug 1, 2026leaderboard54Whisper Large v3OpenAI1.5B6.554285714—~6.9Aug 1, 2026leaderboard55Parakeet TDT CTC 110mNVIDIA0.1B6.607142857—~94Aug 1, 2026leaderboard56Parakeet RNNT 0.6bNVIDIA0.6B6.65—~18Aug 1, 2026leaderboard57Owsm CTC v4 1BESPnet1B6.662857143—~11Aug 1, 2026leaderboard58Parakeet CTC 0.6bNVIDIA0.6B6.73—~18Aug 1, 2026leaderboard59Moonshine Streaming SmallUseful Sensors0.1B6.851428571—~110Aug 1, 2026leaderboard60omniASR LLM 7B v2Meta7.8B6.867142857——Aug 1, 2026leaderboard61Whisper Large v3 TurboOpenAI0.8B7.007142857—~14Aug 1, 2026leaderboard62Audio8 ASR 0.1BAutoArk AI0.3B7.027142857—~37Aug 1, 2026leaderboard63Owsm CTC v3.1 1BESPnet1.1B7.25—~11Aug 1, 2026leaderboard64Owsm CTC v3.2 ft 1BESPnet1B7.25—~12Aug 1, 2026leaderboard65ASR Conformer LargescaleasrSpeechBrain0.5B7.595714286—~25Aug 1, 2026leaderboard66Nemotron 3.5 ASR Streaming 0.6bNVIDIA0.6B7.907142857—~20Aug 1, 2026leaderboard67Niagara 38m Batch.enApplied Brain Research38M8.301428571—~420Aug 1, 2026leaderboard68omniASR CTC 7B v2Meta6.5B9.024285714——Aug 1, 2026leaderboard69Niagara 19m Batch.enApplied Brain Research20M9.878571429—~990Aug 1, 2026leaderboard70Moonshine Streaming TinyUseful Sensors30M11.18—~560Aug 1, 2026leaderboard71Moonshine TinyUseful Sensors30M11.38857143—~570Aug 1, 2026leaderboard72Wav2vec2 Large 960h Lv60 SelfMeta0.3B11.77285714—~59Aug 1, 2026leaderboard73Hubert Large Ls960 ftMeta0.3B13.38857143—~67Aug 1, 2026leaderboard74MMS 1b AllMeta1B13.47428571—~21Aug 1, 2026leaderboard
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