IBM’s New Speech Recognition Model Tops Industry Benchmarks
IBM has unveiled Granite Speech 3.3 8B, a cutting-edge speech recognition model that outperforms competitors like OpenAI and Meta in accuracy and performance. The open-source tool, fine-tuned from IBM's text-based Granite 3.3 8B Instruct model, specializes in converting English speech to text and supports translation into multiple languages including French, Spanish, Japanese, and Mandarin.
Hosted on Hugging Face, the model has quickly risen to the top of the platform's Open ASR leaderboard. Its business-focused design enhances applications like customer service chatbots and voice assistants, reflecting growing demand for seamless human-AI interaction.