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HuBERT X-Large (LibriSpeech 960h ft) is an open-weights speech-to-text model from Meta, released June 2021. Its published size is 0.96B parameters. Licence: apache-2.0.
Catalogue identity notes
Exact checkpoint facebook/hubert-xlarge-ls960-ft (CTC fine-tuned on LibriSpeech 960h). Params: HF safetensors total; released: arXiv 2106.07447v1 month.
Score within the Open ASR English short-form WER (March 2026) comparison set only.
$ how it compares
The speech-to-text models ranked either side of HuBERT X-Large (LibriSpeech 960h ft), out of 176 with a score, then more from Meta.
| # | model | score | where | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 163 |  Whisper base | 25±3 | local | ||
| 164 | wav2vec 2.0 Large 960h LV-60 self-training | 16±3 | local | ||
| 165 | HuBERT X-Large (LibriSpeech 960h ft) | 16±4 | local | ||
| 166 | HuBERT Large (LibriSpeech 960h ft) | 15±4 | local | ||
| 167 | wav2vec 2.0 Large Robust (LibriSpeech 960h ft) | 15±5 | local | ||
| more from Meta | |||||
| 1 | Muse Voice Transcribe 1.0 | 71±3 | api $0.0030/audio min | ||
| 58 | Omnilingual ASR LLM 7B | 58±2 | local | ||
| 59 | Omnilingual ASR LLM 7B v2 | 58±3 | local | ||
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$ what it's good at
other tests4 not in a task · 93% of its score
| test | result | vs the others in its run | counts |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open ASR English short-form WER (March 2026) | 22.5% ✎ | ▁▁▁▃··▁▁▂██▆ beats 9/86 | 58% |
| LibriSpeech test-clean WER +1 | 2.1% ✎ | ▂··▂·▃▂█▂▃▃▃ beats 13/16 | 21% |
| AfriSpeech-200 test (108 African accents) · WER | 64.1% ✎ | ███····█████ beats 1/7 | 9.3% |
| TED-LIUM test WER (short-form) | 14.7% ✎ | ▂····▂▂▂█▃▃▂ beats 4/13 | 4.2% |
$ where to run it
Other ways to run it
- Run it as published · needs ~5.11 GB · from huggingface.co/facebook
uv run --with transformers --with torch python -c "from transformers import pipeline; print(pipeline('automatic-speech-recognition', model='facebook/hubert-xlarge-ls960-ft', chunk_length_s=30)('audio.wav')['text'])"
Weights and documentation: huggingface.co/facebook ↗
$ how the score was worked out · Open ASR Leaderboard 58%, Meta (facebook org) Hugging F… 18%, AfriSpeech-200 (arXiv:2310.00… 9% and 1 more
Each result implies a score on its own, after adjusting for how hard its test is and who ran it. The score is their weighted average, with a small pull toward the middle for thinly tested models. Each test's weight is its counts column above; here it's added up by who ran the tests. How it works
| source | results | share of the score |
|---|---|---|
 Open ASR Leaderboard | 1 | 58% |
| Meta (facebook org) Hugging Face ASR model cards: published LibriSpeech WER for its own checkpoints · lab-reported | 1 | 18% |
 AfriSpeech-200 (arXiv:2310.00274v1) · zero-shot WER of open ASR models on African-accented English | 1 | 9% |
| Speech Robust Bench (arXiv:2403.07937v3) · clean-speech WER of 25+ open ASR models | 2 | 8% |
| prior · pull toward the middle | 7% | |
| weighted average | = 15.7 |
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