| Paper | Code | WER | ModelName | ReleaseDate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Data-Efficient On-Policy Distillation for Automatic Speech Recognition | ✓ Link | 2.45 | Ark-ASR | 2026-06-22 |
| Open ASR Leaderboard | 2.49 | Cohere-transcribe-03-2026 | 2026-03-24 | |
| Open ASR Leaderboard | ✓ Link | 2.57 | VibeVoice-ASR-HF | 2026-03-02 |
| Open ASR Leaderboard | ✓ Link | 2.71 | Canary-qwen-2.5b | 2025-03-07 |
| Open ASR Leaderboard | ✓ Link | 2.8 | Parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3 | 2025-05-01 |
| Open ASR Leaderboard | ✓ Link | 2.85 | Qwen3-ASR-0.6B | 2026-01-28 |
| Open ASR Leaderboard | ✓ Link | 2.94 | Phi-4-multimodal-instruct | 2025-02-24 |
| Open ASR Leaderboard | 2.98 | Moonshine-streaming-medium | 2026-01-06 | |
| Open ASR Leaderboard | ✓ Link | 2.99 | Moonshine v2 Medium | 2026-02-12 |
| Open ASR Leaderboard | ✓ Link | 3.07 | Granite-speech-4.1-2b | 2025-06-19 |
| Open ASR Leaderboard | ✓ Link | 3.1 | GLM-ASR-Nano-2512 | 2025-12-09 |
| Open ASR Leaderboard | ✓ Link | 3.2 | CrisperWhisper | 2024-08-29 |
| Open ASR Leaderboard | ✓ Link | 3.35 | Stt-2.6b-en | 2024-09-17 |
| Open ASR Leaderboard | ✓ Link | 3.38 | Parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v2 | 2025-05-01 |
| Open ASR Leaderboard | 3.39 | SYMPHONY-ASR | 2026-01-12 | |
| Open ASR Leaderboard | ✓ Link | 3.4 | DSM-ASR | 2025-06-06 |
| Open ASR Leaderboard | ✓ Link | 3.4 | Granite-speech-3.3-8b | 2025-06-19 |
| Open ASR Leaderboard | ✓ Link | 3.52 | Voxtral-Small-24B-2507 | 2025-07-15 |
| Open ASR Leaderboard | 3.56 | Canary-1b | 2024-02-07 | |
| Open ASR Leaderboard | ✓ Link | 3.56 | LFM2-Audio-1.5B | 2025-11-28 |
| Open ASR Leaderboard | ✓ Link | 3.57 | Whisper-large-v3-turbo | 2023-11-06 |
| Open ASR Leaderboard | ✓ Link | 3.57 | Parakeet-ctc-1.1b | 2023-12-28 |
| Open ASR Leaderboard | ✓ Link | 3.57 | Granite-speech-3.3-2b | 2025-06-19 |
| Open ASR Leaderboard | ✓ Link | 3.59 | Parakeet-tdt-1.1b | 2025-05-01 |
| Open ASR Leaderboard | ✓ Link | 3.64 | Distil-large-v3.5 | 2024-12-05 |
| Open ASR Leaderboard | 3.77 | Moonshine-streaming-small | 2026-01-06 | |
| Open ASR Leaderboard | ✓ Link | 3.79 | Voxtral-Mini-4B-Realtime-2602 | 2026-02-11 |
| Open ASR Leaderboard | ✓ Link | 3.83 | Parakeet-rnnt-1.1b | 2023-12-28 |
| Open ASR Leaderboard | ✓ Link | 3.86 | Whisper-large-v3 | 2023-11-06 |
| Open ASR Leaderboard | ✓ Link | 3.86 | Distil-large-v3 | 2024-12-05 |
| Open ASR Leaderboard | ✓ Link | 3.91 | Whisper-large | 2023-11-06 |
| Open ASR Leaderboard | ✓ Link | 4.07 | Whisper-small.en | 2023-11-06 |
| Open ASR Leaderboard | ✓ Link | 4.07 | Parakeet-tdt_ctc-110m | 2025-05-01 |
| Open ASR Leaderboard | ✓ Link | 4.12 | Whisper-medium.en | 2023-11-06 |
| Open ASR Leaderboard | ✓ Link | 4.12 | Zipformer-transducer-XL-290M | 2026-05-12 |
| Open ASR Leaderboard | ✓ Link | 4.43 | Owsm_ctc_v4_1B | 2025-01-16 |
| Open ASR Leaderboard | ✓ Link | 4.54 | Distil-small.en | 2024-12-05 |
| Open ASR Leaderboard | ✓ Link | 4.84 | Distil-medium.en | 2024-12-05 |
| Open ASR Leaderboard | ✓ Link | 4.87 | Whisper-base.en | 2023-11-06 |
| Open ASR Leaderboard | ✓ Link | 4.92 | Owsm_ctc_v3.1_1B | 2024-01-30 |
| Open ASR Leaderboard | 4.98 | Asr-conformer-loquacious | 2025-02-06 | |
| Open ASR Leaderboard | 6.1 | Moonshine-streaming-tiny | 2026-01-06 | |
| Open ASR Leaderboard | 6.73 | Niagara-19m-batch.en | 2026-02-19 | |
| Open ASR Leaderboard | ✓ Link | 7.16 | Stt_en_conformer_ctc_small | 2022-04-09 |
| Open ASR Leaderboard | ✓ Link | 7.58 | Asr-wav2vec2-librispeech | 2022-06-05 |
| Open ASR Leaderboard | ✓ Link | 14.88 | Wav2vec2-large-960h-lv60-self | 2020-06-20 |
| Open ASR Leaderboard | ✓ Link | 15.77 | Wav2vec2-conformer-rel-pos-large-960h-ft | 2022-04-18 |
| Open ASR Leaderboard | ✓ Link | 15.86 | Data2vec-audio-large-960h | 2022-04-02 |
| Open ASR Leaderboard | ✓ Link | 15.92 | Hubert-large-ls960-ft | 2022-03-02 |
| Open ASR Leaderboard | ✓ Link | 15.92 | Wav2vec2-conformer-rope-large-960h-ft | 2022-04-18 |
| Open ASR Leaderboard | ✓ Link | 18.85 | Wav2vec2-large-960h | 2020-06-20 |
| Open ASR Leaderboard | ✓ Link | 21.05 | Wav2vec2-base-960h | 2020-06-20 |