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Granite Speech 5.0 Turbo CTC Models Released by IBM

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Consensus Brief

IBM has announced the release of two new models in the Granite Speech family, the granite-speech-5.0-470m-turboctc and granite-speech-5.0-470m-turboctc-nc. These models feature 470 million parameters, achieving over 12,600 RTFx on an NVIDIA H200 GPU, allowing for rapid transcription of speech.

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What Changed Since Last Update

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The new models are encoder-only designs that provide significantly faster throughput and improved accuracy compared to previous Granite Speech models.

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The noncommercial model scores an aggregate 4.85% WER and the Apache 2.0 model scores 5.00% WER.

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Both models can transcribe more than 3.5 hours of speech in one second using batched inference.

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The new models are over 20x faster than previous Granite Speech models.

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The granite-speech-5.0-470m-turboctc-nc model carries a CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0 license.

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Extremely Fast and Accurate Transcription with Granite Speech 5.0 Turbo CTC

Hugging Face·1h ago