| Azure Speech at Build 2026: Powering Voice Agents with Real-Time and Life-like Experiences | | 5.07 | microsoft/azure-speech-06-2026 | 2026-06-04 |
| Introducing Zoom AI Services | | 5.08 | zoom/scribe_v1 | 2026-03-10 |
| Fast Conformer with Linearly Scalable Attention for Efficient Speech Recognition | ✓ Link | 5.12 | nvidia/parakeet-rnnt-1.1b | 2023-12-27 |
| Efficient Sequence Transduction by Jointly Predicting Tokens and Durations | ✓ Link | 5.22 | nvidia/parakeet-tdt-1.1b | 2024-01-25 |
| Training and Inference Efficiency of Encoder-Decoder Speech Models | ✓ Link | 5.38 | nvidia/canary-1b-flash | 2025-03-07 |
| ✓ Link | 5.38 | nvidia/canary-qwen-2.5b | 2025-07-17 |
| ✓ Link | 5.4 | ibm-granite/granite-speech-4.1-2b | 2026-04-29 |
| Granite-speech: open-source speech-aware LLMs with strong English ASR capabilities | ✓ Link | 5.44 | ibm-granite/granite-speech-3.3-8b | 2025-06-19 |
| | 5.46 | OpenMOSS-Team/MOSS-Transcribe-preview-2B | 2026-06-26 |
| Data-Efficient On-Policy Distillation for Automatic Speech Recognition | ✓ Link | 5.47 | AutoArk-AI/ARK-ASR-3B | 2026-06-22 |
| ✓ Link | 5.51 | ibm-granite/granite-4.0-1b-speech | 2026-03-06 |
| Less is More: Accurate Speech Recognition & Translation without Web-Scale Data | ✓ Link | 5.52 | nvidia/canary-1b | 2024-02-07 |
| Introducing Cohere-transcribe: state-of-the-art speech recognition | | 5.58 | CohereLabs/cohere-transcribe-03-2026 | 2026-03-26 |
| Boson AI Launches Higgs STT 3 Speech-to-Text Model | ✓ Link | 5.62 | bosonai/higgs-audio-v3-8b-stt-v2 | 2026-04-27 |
| NLE: Non-autoregressive LLM-based ASR by Transcript Editing | ✓ Link | 5.63 | ibm-granite/granite-speech-4.1-2b-nar | 2026-04-01 |
| Granite-speech: open-source speech-aware LLMs with strong English ASR capabilities | ✓ Link | 5.64 | ibm-granite/granite-speech-3.3-2b | 2025-06-19 |
| Pulse STT: Fast, Accurate Speech-to-Text | | 5.65 | smallestai/pulse | 2026-01-28 |
| Efficient Sequence Transduction by Jointly Predicting Tokens and Durations | ✓ Link | 5.68 | nvidia/parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v2 | 2025-05-01 |
| Phi-4-Mini Technical Report: Compact yet Powerful Multimodal Language Models via Mixture-of-LoRAs | | 5.77 | microsoft/Phi-4-multimodal-instruct | 2025-02-24 |
| Fast Conformer with Linearly Scalable Attention for Efficient Speech Recognition | ✓ Link | 5.78 | nvidia/parakeet-rnnt-0.6b | 2023-12-28 |
| Canary-1B-v2 & Parakeet-TDT-0.6B-v3: Efficient and High-Performance Models for Multilingual ASR and AST | ✓ Link | 5.89 | nvidia/parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3 | 2025-08-14 |
| Introducing Resonant-1 and Resonant-1-flash | | 5.9 | reson8/resonant-1-flash | 2026-04-08 |
| Canary-1B-v2 & Parakeet-TDT-0.6B-v3: Efficient and High-Performance Models for Multilingual ASR and AST | ✓ Link | 5.93 | nvidia/canary-1b-v2 | 2025-08-14 |
| Boson AI Launches Higgs STT 3 Speech-to-Text Model | ✓ Link | 5.93 | bosonai/higgs-audio-v3-stt | 2026-03-18 |
| Qwen3-ASR Technical Report | ✓ Link | 5.99 | Qwen/Qwen3-ASR-1.7B | 2026-01-28 |
| Fast Conformer with Linearly Scalable Attention for Efficient Speech Recognition | ✓ Link | 6.04 | nvidia/stt_en_fastconformer_transducer_large | 2023-06-08 |
| Introducing Resonant-1 and Resonant-1-flash | | 6.04 | reson8/resonant-1 | 2026-04-08 |
| Training and Inference Efficiency of Encoder-Decoder Speech Models | ✓ Link | 6.11 | nvidia/canary-180m-flash | 2025-03-11 |
| Fast Conformer with Linearly Scalable Attention for Efficient Speech Recognition | ✓ Link | 6.14 | nvidia/stt_en_fastconformer_ctc_large | 2023-06-08 |
| Fast Conformer with Linearly Scalable Attention for Efficient Speech Recognition | ✓ Link | 6.29 | nvidia/parakeet-ctc-1.1b | 2023-12-28 |
| Data-Efficient On-Policy Distillation for Automatic Speech Recognition | ✓ Link | 6.29 | AutoArk-AI/ARK-ASR-0.6B | 2026-05-25 |
| Omnilingual ASR: Open-Source Multilingual Speech Recognition for 1600+ Languages | ✓ Link | 6.39 | facebook/omniASR-LLM-7B-v2 | 2025-12-12 |
| Streaming Sequence-to-Sequence Learning with Delayed Streams Modeling | ✓ Link | 6.45 | kyutai/stt-2.6b-en | 2025-06-06 |
| Introducing Universal-3 Pro: A new class of speech language model optimized for Voice AI | | 6.49 | assemblyai/universal-3-pro | 2026-02-03 |
| Conformer: Convolution-augmented Transformer for Speech Recognition | ✓ Link | 6.52 | nvidia/stt_en_conformer_ctc_large | 2022-04-09 |
| Zipformer: A faster and better encoder for automatic speech recognition | ✓ Link | 6.56 | soundsgoodai/Zipformer-transducer-XL-290M | 2026-05-12 |
| Voxtral | ✓ Link | 6.6 | mistralai/Voxtral-Small-24B-2507 | 2025-07-15 |
| Efficient Sequence Transduction by Jointly Predicting Tokens and Durations | ✓ Link | 6.63 | nvidia/parakeet-tdt_ctc-110m | 2024-09-17 |
| Ursa 2: Elevating speech recognition across 50+ languages | | 6.64 | speechmatics/enhanced | 2024-10-11 |
| Fast Conformer with Linearly Scalable Attention for Efficient Speech Recognition | ✓ Link | 6.77 | nvidia/parakeet-ctc-0.6b | 2023-12-28 |
| Voxtral | ✓ Link | 6.77 | mistralai/Voxtral-Mini-3B-2507 | 2025-07-01 |
| Qwen3-ASR Technical Report | ✓ Link | 6.8 | Qwen/Qwen3-ASR-0.6B | 2026-01-28 |
| Loquacious Set: 25,000 Hours of Transcribed and Diverse English Speech Recognition Data for Research and Commercial Use | ✓ Link | 6.88 | speechbrain/asr-conformer-largescaleasr | 2025-02-06 |
| Avalon: ASR for Human–AI Interaction | | 6.88 | aquavoice/avalon-v1-en | 2025-08-22 |
| OWSM v4: Improving Open Whisper-Style Speech Models via Data Scaling and Cleaning | ✓ Link | 7.12 | espnet/owsm_ctc_v4_1B | 2025-01-16 |
| GLM-ASR-Nano: A robust, open-source speech recognition model | ✓ Link | 7.17 | zai-org/GLM-ASR-Nano-2512 | 2025-12-09 |
| LiteASR: Efficient Automatic Speech Recognition with Low-Rank Approximation | ✓ Link | 7.32 | efficient-speech/lite-whisper-large-v3 | 2025-02-26 |
| LiteASR: Efficient Automatic Speech Recognition with Low-Rank Approximation | ✓ Link | 7.44 | efficient-speech/lite-whisper-large-v3-fast | 2025-02-26 |
| Conformer: Convolution-augmented Transformer for Speech Recognition | ✓ Link | 7.67 | nvidia/stt_en_conformer_transducer_small | 2022-06-01 |
| Robust Knowledge Distillation via Large-Scale Pseudo Labelling | ✓ Link | 7.69 | distil-whisper/distil-large-v3.5 | 2024-12-05 |
| On the Effects of Heterogeneous Data Sources on Speech-to-Text Foundation Models | ✓ Link | 7.75 | espnet/owsm_ctc_v3.2_ft_1B | 2024-09-24 |
| LiteASR: Efficient Automatic Speech Recognition with Low-Rank Approximation | ✓ Link | 7.77 | efficient-speech/lite-whisper-large-v3-acc | 2025-02-26 |
| LiteASR: Efficient Automatic Speech Recognition with Low-Rank Approximation | ✓ Link | 7.81 | efficient-speech/lite-whisper-large-v3-turbo-acc | 2025-02-26 |
| Omnilingual ASR: Open-Source Multilingual Speech Recognition for 1600+ Languages | ✓ Link | 7.82 | facebook/omniASR-CTC-7B-v2 | 2025-12-12 |
| VibeVoice-ASR Technical Report | ✓ Link | 7.9 | microsoft/VibeVoice-ASR-HF | 2026-03-02 |
| Voxtral Realtime | ✓ Link | 8 | mistralai/Voxtral-Mini-4B-Realtime-2602 | 2026-02-11 |
| Moonshine v2: Ergodic Streaming Encoder ASR for Latency-Critical Speech Applications | ✓ Link | 8.01 | usefulsensors/moonshine-streaming-medium | 2026-02-12 |
| OWSM-CTC: An Open Encoder-Only Speech Foundation Model for Speech Recognition, Translation, and Language Identification | ✓ Link | 8.11 | espnet/owsm_ctc_v3.1_1B | 2024-02-23 |
| CrisperWhisper: Accurate Timestamps on Verbatim Speech Transcriptions | ✓ Link | 8.6 | nyrahealth/CrisperWhisper | 2024-08-29 |
| Niagara-38m Sets a New Benchmark for Edge Speech Recognition | | 8.67 | abr-ai/niagara-38m-batch.en | 2026-04-15 |
| Robust Speech Recognition via Large-Scale Weak Supervision | ✓ Link | 8.7 | openai/whisper-large-v3 | 2023-11-06 |
| Conformer: Convolution-augmented Transformer for Speech Recognition | ✓ Link | 8.75 | nvidia/stt_en_conformer_ctc_small | 2023-06-12 |
| Moonshine v2: Ergodic Streaming Encoder ASR for Latency-Critical Speech Applications | ✓ Link | 9.26 | usefulsensors/moonshine-streaming-small | 2026-02-12 |
| Scaling Speech Technology to 1,000+ Languages | ✓ Link | 9.29 | facebook/mms-1b-all | 2023-05-27 |
| Niagara-38m Sets a New Benchmark for Edge Speech Recognition | | 9.82 | abr-ai/niagara-19m-batch.en | 2026-04-15 |
| Moonshine: Speech Recognition for Live Transcription and Voice Commands | ✓ Link | 10.32 | usefulsensors/moonshine-base | 2024-10-21 |
| Robust Speech Recognition via Large-Scale Weak Supervision | ✓ Link | 11.22 | openai/whisper-large-v3-turbo | 2024-10-01 |
| fairseq S2T: Fast Speech-to-Text Modeling with fairseq | ✓ Link | 12.07 | facebook/wav2vec2-conformer-rope-large-960h-ft | 2022-04-18 |
| fairseq S2T: Fast Speech-to-Text Modeling with fairseq | ✓ Link | 12.22 | facebook/wav2vec2-conformer-rel-pos-large-960h-ft | 2022-04-18 |
| data2vec: A General Framework for Self-supervised Learning in Speech, Vision and Language | ✓ Link | 12.29 | facebook/data2vec-audio-large-960h | 2022-04-02 |
| Moonshine: Speech Recognition for Live Transcription and Voice Commands | ✓ Link | 12.84 | usefulsensors/moonshine-tiny | 2024-10-21 |
| Moonshine v2: Ergodic Streaming Encoder ASR for Latency-Critical Speech Applications | ✓ Link | 12.97 | usefulsensors/moonshine-streaming-tiny | 2026-02-12 |
| SpeechBrain: A General-Purpose Speech Toolkit | ✓ Link | 13.02 | speechbrain/asr-wav2vec2-librispeech | 2022-06-05 |
| wav2vec 2.0: A Framework for Self-Supervised Learning of Speech Representations | ✓ Link | 13.88 | facebook/wav2vec2-large-960h-lv60-self | 2020-06-20 |
| HuBERT: Self-Supervised Speech Representation Learning by Masked Prediction of Hidden Units | ✓ Link | 14.99 | facebook/hubert-xlarge-ls960-ft | 2022-03-02 |
| HuBERT: Self-Supervised Speech Representation Learning by Masked Prediction of Hidden Units | ✓ Link | 15.36 | facebook/hubert-large-ls960-ft | 2022-03-02 |
| Robust wav2vec 2.0: Analyzing Domain Shift in Self-Supervised Pre-Training | ✓ Link | 16.22 | facebook/wav2vec2-large-robust-ft-libri-960h | 2021-04-02 |
| data2vec: A General Framework for Self-supervised Learning in Speech, Vision and Language | ✓ Link | 17.85 | facebook/data2vec-audio-base-960h | 2022-03-02 |
| wav2vec 2.0: A Framework for Self-Supervised Learning of Speech Representations | ✓ Link | 21.2 | facebook/wav2vec2-large-960h | 2020-06-20 |
| wav2vec 2.0: A Framework for Self-Supervised Learning of Speech Representations | ✓ Link | 24.16 | facebook/wav2vec2-base-960h | 2022-03-02 |