| Paper | Code | WER | ModelName | ReleaseDate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open ASR Leaderboard | ✓ Link | 5.44 | Parakeet-rnnt-1.1b | 2023-12-28 |
| Open ASR Leaderboard | ✓ Link | 5.49 | Parakeet-tdt-1.1b | 2025-05-01 |
| Open ASR Leaderboard | ✓ Link | 5.63 | Canary-1b-flash | 2025-03-07 |
| Open ASR Leaderboard | ✓ Link | 5.66 | Canary-qwen-2.5b | 2025-03-07 |
| Open ASR Leaderboard | 5.79 | Canary-1b | 2024-02-07 | |
| Open ASR Leaderboard | 5.87 | Cohere-transcribe-03-2026 | 2026-03-24 | |
| Open ASR Leaderboard | ✓ Link | 5.93 | Granite-speech-3.3-2b | 2025-06-19 |
| Open ASR Leaderboard | ✓ Link | 5.95 | Parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v2 | 2025-05-01 |
| Open ASR Leaderboard | ✓ Link | 6.09 | Parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3 | 2025-05-01 |
| Open ASR Leaderboard | 6.3 | SYMPHONY-ASR | 2026-01-12 | |
| Data-Efficient On-Policy Distillation for Automatic Speech Recognition | ✓ Link | 6.31 | Ark-ASR | 2026-06-22 |
| Open ASR Leaderboard | ✓ Link | 6.35 | Canary-180m-flash | 2025-03-07 |
| Open ASR Leaderboard | ✓ Link | 6.35 | Qwen3-ASR-1.7B | 2026-01-28 |
| Open ASR Leaderboard | ✓ Link | 6.56 | Parakeet-ctc-1.1b | 2023-12-28 |
| Open ASR Leaderboard | 6.7 | SYMPHONY | 2025-10-27 | |
| Open ASR Leaderboard | ✓ Link | 6.79 | Stt-2.6b-en | 2024-09-17 |
| Open ASR Leaderboard | ✓ Link | 6.8 | DSM-ASR | 2025-06-06 |
| Open ASR Leaderboard | ✓ Link | 6.9 | Parakeet-tdt_ctc-110m | 2025-05-01 |
| Open ASR Leaderboard | ✓ Link | 6.96 | Voxtral-Small-24B-2507 | 2025-07-15 |
| Open ASR Leaderboard | ✓ Link | 7.07 | Parakeet-ctc-0.6b | 2023-12-28 |
| Open ASR Leaderboard | ✓ Link | 7.07 | Qwen3-ASR-0.6B | 2026-01-28 |
| Open ASR Leaderboard | ✓ Link | 8.04 | Distil-large-v3.5 | 2024-12-05 |
| Open ASR Leaderboard | ✓ Link | 8.24 | Distil-large-v2 | 2024-12-05 |
| Open ASR Leaderboard | ✓ Link | 8.25 | Distil-large-v3 | 2024-12-05 |
| Open ASR Leaderboard | ✓ Link | 8.4 | Owsm_ctc_v3.1_1B | 2024-01-30 |
| Open ASR Leaderboard | 8.54 | Moonshine-streaming-medium | 2026-01-06 | |
| Open ASR Leaderboard | ✓ Link | 8.54 | Moonshine v2 Medium | 2026-02-12 |
| Open ASR Leaderboard | 8.73 | Niagara-38m-batch.en | 2026-02-19 | |
| Open ASR Leaderboard | ✓ Link | 9.54 | Whisper-large-v3 | 2023-11-06 |
| Open ASR Leaderboard | ✓ Link | 9.82 | CrisperWhisper | 2024-08-29 |
| Open ASR Leaderboard | ✓ Link | 9.93 | LFM2-Audio-1.5B | 2025-11-28 |
| Open ASR Leaderboard | 9.98 | Moonshine-streaming-small | 2026-01-06 | |
| Open ASR Leaderboard | 14.02 | Moonshine-streaming-tiny | 2026-01-06 | |
| Open ASR Leaderboard | ✓ Link | 17.63 | Mms-1b-all | 2023-05-27 |
| Open ASR Leaderboard | ✓ Link | 22.61 | Wav2vec2-conformer-rope-large-960h-ft | 2022-04-18 |
| Open ASR Leaderboard | ✓ Link | 23.86 | Data2vec-audio-large-960h | 2022-04-02 |
| Open ASR Leaderboard | ✓ Link | 27.25 | Data2vec-audio-base-960h | 2022-04-02 |
| Open ASR Leaderboard | ✓ Link | 30.09 | Wav2vec2-large-960h | 2020-06-20 |
| Open ASR Leaderboard | ✓ Link | 32.48 | Wav2vec2-base-960h | 2020-06-20 |