| NLE: Non-autoregressive LLM-based ASR by Transcript Editing | ✓ Link | 7.64 | ibm-granite/granite-speech-4.1-2b-nar | 2026-04-01 |
| ✓ Link | 7.72 | ibm-granite/granite-speech-4.1-2b | 2026-04-29 |
| Introducing Cohere-transcribe: state-of-the-art speech recognition | | 7.8 | CohereLabs/cohere-transcribe-03-2026 | 2026-03-26 |
| Boson AI Launches Higgs STT 3 Speech-to-Text Model | ✓ Link | 7.86 | bosonai/higgs-audio-v3-stt | 2026-03-18 |
| Azure Speech at Build 2026: Powering Voice Agents with Real-Time and Life-like Experiences | | 7.93 | microsoft/azure-speech-06-2026 | 2026-06-04 |
| CrisperWhisper: Accurate Timestamps on Verbatim Speech Transcriptions | ✓ Link | 8.04 | nyrahealth/CrisperWhisper | 2024-08-29 |
| ✓ Link | 8.12 | ibm-granite/granite-4.0-1b-speech | 2026-03-06 |
| Granite-speech: open-source speech-aware LLMs with strong English ASR capabilities | ✓ Link | 8.43 | ibm-granite/granite-speech-3.3-8b | 2025-06-19 |
| | 8.48 | OpenMOSS-Team/MOSS-Transcribe-preview-2B | 2026-06-26 |
| Granite-speech: open-source speech-aware LLMs with strong English ASR capabilities | ✓ Link | 8.53 | ibm-granite/granite-speech-3.3-2b | 2025-06-19 |
| Data-Efficient On-Policy Distillation for Automatic Speech Recognition | ✓ Link | 8.79 | AutoArk-AI/ARK-ASR-3B | 2026-06-22 |
| Introducing Zoom AI Services | | 8.9 | zoom/scribe_v1 | 2026-03-10 |
| ✓ Link | 9.05 | nvidia/canary-qwen-2.5b | 2025-07-17 |
| Qwen3-ASR Technical Report | ✓ Link | 9.26 | Qwen/Qwen3-ASR-1.7B | 2026-01-28 |
| Boson AI Launches Higgs STT 3 Speech-to-Text Model | ✓ Link | 9.35 | bosonai/higgs-audio-v3-8b-stt-v2 | 2026-04-27 |
| Introducing Resonant-1 and Resonant-1-flash | | 9.54 | reson8/resonant-1-flash | 2026-04-08 |
| Introducing Resonant-1 and Resonant-1-flash | | 9.63 | reson8/resonant-1 | 2026-04-08 |
| Moonshine v2: Ergodic Streaming Encoder ASR for Latency-Critical Speech Applications | ✓ Link | 9.75 | usefulsensors/moonshine-streaming-medium | 2026-02-12 |
| Data-Efficient On-Policy Distillation for Automatic Speech Recognition | ✓ Link | 9.81 | AutoArk-AI/ARK-ASR-0.6B | 2026-05-25 |
| Avalon: ASR for Human–AI Interaction | | 10.19 | aquavoice/avalon-v1-en | 2025-08-22 |
| Efficient Sequence Transduction by Jointly Predicting Tokens and Durations | ✓ Link | 10.4 | nvidia/parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v2 | 2025-05-01 |
| Pulse STT: Fast, Accurate Speech-to-Text | | 10.42 | smallestai/pulse | 2026-01-28 |
| Qwen3-ASR Technical Report | ✓ Link | 10.57 | Qwen/Qwen3-ASR-0.6B | 2026-01-28 |
| Canary-1B-v2 & Parakeet-TDT-0.6B-v3: Efficient and High-Performance Models for Multilingual ASR and AST | ✓ Link | 10.58 | nvidia/parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3 | 2025-08-14 |
| Phi-4-Mini Technical Report: Compact yet Powerful Multimodal Language Models via Mixture-of-LoRAs | | 10.69 | microsoft/Phi-4-multimodal-instruct | 2025-02-24 |
| Streaming Sequence-to-Sequence Learning with Delayed Streams Modeling | ✓ Link | 11.57 | kyutai/stt-2.6b-en | 2025-06-06 |
| Moonshine v2: Ergodic Streaming Encoder ASR for Latency-Critical Speech Applications | ✓ Link | 11.69 | usefulsensors/moonshine-streaming-small | 2026-02-12 |
| Training and Inference Efficiency of Encoder-Decoder Speech Models | ✓ Link | 12.11 | nvidia/canary-1b-flash | 2025-03-07 |
| Less is More: Accurate Speech Recognition & Translation without Web-Scale Data | ✓ Link | 12.42 | nvidia/canary-1b | 2024-02-07 |
| Introducing Universal-3 Pro: A new class of speech language model optimized for Voice AI | | 12.56 | assemblyai/universal-3-pro | 2026-02-03 |
| OWSM v4: Improving Open Whisper-Style Speech Models via Data Scaling and Cleaning | ✓ Link | 12.58 | espnet/owsm_ctc_v4_1B | 2025-01-16 |
| Ursa 2: Elevating speech recognition across 50+ languages | | 13.31 | speechmatics/enhanced | 2024-10-11 |
| Robust Knowledge Distillation via Large-Scale Pseudo Labelling | ✓ Link | 13.36 | distil-whisper/distil-large-v3.5 | 2024-12-05 |
| Training and Inference Efficiency of Encoder-Decoder Speech Models | ✓ Link | 13.66 | nvidia/canary-180m-flash | 2025-03-11 |
| Zipformer: A faster and better encoder for automatic speech recognition | ✓ Link | 13.96 | soundsgoodai/Zipformer-transducer-XL-290M | 2026-05-12 |
| Voxtral | ✓ Link | 14.32 | mistralai/Voxtral-Small-24B-2507 | 2025-07-15 |
| Efficient Sequence Transduction by Jointly Predicting Tokens and Durations | ✓ Link | 14.7 | nvidia/parakeet-tdt_ctc-110m | 2024-09-17 |
| Canary-1B-v2 & Parakeet-TDT-0.6B-v3: Efficient and High-Performance Models for Multilingual ASR and AST | ✓ Link | 14.71 | nvidia/canary-1b-v2 | 2025-08-14 |
| Fast Conformer with Linearly Scalable Attention for Efficient Speech Recognition | ✓ Link | 14.76 | nvidia/parakeet-ctc-1.1b | 2023-12-28 |
| Efficient Sequence Transduction by Jointly Predicting Tokens and Durations | ✓ Link | 14.81 | nvidia/parakeet-tdt-1.1b | 2024-01-25 |
| LiteASR: Efficient Automatic Speech Recognition with Low-Rank Approximation | ✓ Link | 14.81 | efficient-speech/lite-whisper-large-v3-acc | 2025-02-26 |
| Robust Speech Recognition via Large-Scale Weak Supervision | ✓ Link | 14.86 | openai/whisper-large-v3 | 2023-11-06 |
| Voxtral | ✓ Link | 15.04 | mistralai/Voxtral-Mini-3B-2507 | 2025-07-01 |
| Moonshine: Speech Recognition for Live Transcription and Voice Commands | ✓ Link | 15.15 | usefulsensors/moonshine-base | 2024-10-21 |
| Robust Speech Recognition via Large-Scale Weak Supervision | ✓ Link | 15.16 | openai/whisper-large-v3-turbo | 2024-10-01 |
| OWSM-CTC: An Open Encoder-Only Speech Foundation Model for Speech Recognition, Translation, and Language Identification | ✓ Link | 15.18 | espnet/owsm_ctc_v3.1_1B | 2024-02-23 |
| Conformer: Convolution-augmented Transformer for Speech Recognition | ✓ Link | 15.2 | nvidia/stt_en_conformer_ctc_large | 2022-04-09 |
| Niagara-38m Sets a New Benchmark for Edge Speech Recognition | | 15.46 | abr-ai/niagara-38m-batch.en | 2026-04-15 |
| VibeVoice-ASR Technical Report | ✓ Link | 15.48 | microsoft/VibeVoice-ASR-HF | 2026-03-02 |
| Fast Conformer with Linearly Scalable Attention for Efficient Speech Recognition | ✓ Link | 15.56 | nvidia/parakeet-ctc-0.6b | 2023-12-28 |
| LiteASR: Efficient Automatic Speech Recognition with Low-Rank Approximation | ✓ Link | 15.61 | efficient-speech/lite-whisper-large-v3 | 2025-02-26 |
| LiteASR: Efficient Automatic Speech Recognition with Low-Rank Approximation | ✓ Link | 15.61 | efficient-speech/lite-whisper-large-v3-turbo-acc | 2025-02-26 |
| GLM-ASR-Nano: A robust, open-source speech recognition model | ✓ Link | 15.85 | zai-org/GLM-ASR-Nano-2512 | 2025-12-09 |
| Voxtral Realtime | ✓ Link | 15.91 | mistralai/Voxtral-Mini-4B-Realtime-2602 | 2026-02-11 |
| Fast Conformer with Linearly Scalable Attention for Efficient Speech Recognition | ✓ Link | 15.96 | nvidia/parakeet-rnnt-1.1b | 2023-12-27 |
| On the Effects of Heterogeneous Data Sources on Speech-to-Text Foundation Models | ✓ Link | 15.96 | espnet/owsm_ctc_v3.2_ft_1B | 2024-09-24 |
| Fast Conformer with Linearly Scalable Attention for Efficient Speech Recognition | ✓ Link | 16.47 | nvidia/parakeet-rnnt-0.6b | 2023-12-28 |
| Fast Conformer with Linearly Scalable Attention for Efficient Speech Recognition | ✓ Link | 17.72 | nvidia/stt_en_fastconformer_ctc_large | 2023-06-08 |
| Moonshine v2: Ergodic Streaming Encoder ASR for Latency-Critical Speech Applications | ✓ Link | 17.95 | usefulsensors/moonshine-streaming-tiny | 2026-02-12 |
| Fast Conformer with Linearly Scalable Attention for Efficient Speech Recognition | ✓ Link | 18.01 | nvidia/stt_en_fastconformer_transducer_large | 2023-06-08 |
| Niagara-38m Sets a New Benchmark for Edge Speech Recognition | | 18.28 | abr-ai/niagara-19m-batch.en | 2026-04-15 |
| Loquacious Set: 25,000 Hours of Transcribed and Diverse English Speech Recognition Data for Research and Commercial Use | ✓ Link | 18.54 | speechbrain/asr-conformer-largescaleasr | 2025-02-06 |
| LiteASR: Efficient Automatic Speech Recognition with Low-Rank Approximation | ✓ Link | 18.69 | efficient-speech/lite-whisper-large-v3-fast | 2025-02-26 |
| Omnilingual ASR: Open-Source Multilingual Speech Recognition for 1600+ Languages | ✓ Link | 19.45 | facebook/omniASR-LLM-7B-v2 | 2025-12-12 |
| Conformer: Convolution-augmented Transformer for Speech Recognition | ✓ Link | 19.65 | nvidia/stt_en_conformer_transducer_small | 2022-06-01 |
| Conformer: Convolution-augmented Transformer for Speech Recognition | ✓ Link | 19.91 | nvidia/stt_en_conformer_ctc_small | 2023-06-12 |
| Moonshine: Speech Recognition for Live Transcription and Voice Commands | ✓ Link | 20.42 | usefulsensors/moonshine-tiny | 2024-10-21 |
| Omnilingual ASR: Open-Source Multilingual Speech Recognition for 1600+ Languages | ✓ Link | 22.1 | facebook/omniASR-CTC-7B-v2 | 2025-12-12 |
| wav2vec 2.0: A Framework for Self-Supervised Learning of Speech Representations | ✓ Link | 29.45 | facebook/wav2vec2-large-960h-lv60-self | 2020-06-20 |
| Robust wav2vec 2.0: Analyzing Domain Shift in Self-Supervised Pre-Training | ✓ Link | 30.44 | facebook/wav2vec2-large-robust-ft-libri-960h | 2021-04-02 |
| HuBERT: Self-Supervised Speech Representation Learning by Masked Prediction of Hidden Units | ✓ Link | 31.53 | facebook/hubert-xlarge-ls960-ft | 2022-03-02 |
| SpeechBrain: A General-Purpose Speech Toolkit | ✓ Link | 31.56 | speechbrain/asr-wav2vec2-librispeech | 2022-06-05 |
| HuBERT: Self-Supervised Speech Representation Learning by Masked Prediction of Hidden Units | ✓ Link | 32.32 | facebook/hubert-large-ls960-ft | 2022-03-02 |
| data2vec: A General Framework for Self-supervised Learning in Speech, Vision and Language | ✓ Link | 33.22 | facebook/data2vec-audio-large-960h | 2022-04-02 |
| Scaling Speech Technology to 1,000+ Languages | ✓ Link | 35.14 | facebook/mms-1b-all | 2023-05-27 |
| fairseq S2T: Fast Speech-to-Text Modeling with fairseq | ✓ Link | 35.36 | facebook/wav2vec2-conformer-rel-pos-large-960h-ft | 2022-04-18 |
| fairseq S2T: Fast Speech-to-Text Modeling with fairseq | ✓ Link | 35.4 | facebook/wav2vec2-conformer-rope-large-960h-ft | 2022-04-18 |
| wav2vec 2.0: A Framework for Self-Supervised Learning of Speech Representations | ✓ Link | 35.72 | facebook/wav2vec2-large-960h | 2020-06-20 |
| wav2vec 2.0: A Framework for Self-Supervised Learning of Speech Representations | ✓ Link | 38.98 | facebook/wav2vec2-base-960h | 2022-03-02 |
| data2vec: A General Framework for Self-supervised Learning in Speech, Vision and Language | ✓ Link | 41.11 | facebook/data2vec-audio-base-960h | 2022-03-02 |