IBM releases Granite Speech 5.0 speech models
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On 21 October 2026, IBM published an update to its Granite Speech 5.0 series of speech models on the Hugging Face blog. According to the report, the update adds the granite-speech-5.0-2b model and revises two existing models, granite-speech-5.0-470m-turboctc and granite-speech-4.1-2b-plus. All three models have now been released as part of the series update.
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- Hugging Face BlogGranite Speech 5.0: Transcribe, Translate, and Attribute more Accurately and Faster
We're excited to share three updates to IBM's Granite Speech collection: a new speech-language model, granite-speech-5.0-2b, and revised versions of two models the community already uses, granite-speech-5.0-470m-turboctc and granite-speech-4.1-2b-plus.
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