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Best speech-to-text models for a 8GB Mac

A leaderboard of the best speech-to-text models for a Mac with 8GB of memory. The best one that runs on it right now is Granite Speech 5.0 470M TurboCTC NC, followed by Cohere Transcribe Arabic (07-2026) and Granite Speech 5.0 470M TurboCTC. Models are ranked by one score that combines 86 published benchmarks. Models that run on it show the download that fits and the command to run it.

112 models · scores combine 86 benchmarks · updated how it works · find a leaderboard · benchmark your machine
task[all tasks][long-form transcription][multilingual transcription]
Models for 8GB RAM · Apple Silicon → ~5GB fast · reset
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set[all sets][Open ASR English short-form WER (March 2026) · 176][LibriSpeech test-clean WER · 2]

Filter the model list while keeping overall scores. Models without a shared score scale are not yet calibrated; select a set to see its own scores.

Detect your exact chip or graphics card:

curl -G whatmodel.sh/stt -d max=0 --data-urlencode "mac=$(sysctl -n hw.memsize machdep.cpu.brand_string)"Mac

curl -G whatmodel.sh/stt -d max=0 --data-urlencode "ram=$(awk '/MemT/{print $2}' /proc/meminfo)" --data-urlencode "nv=$(nvidia-smi --query-gpu=name,memory.total --format=csv,noheader 2>/dev/null)"Linux

curl.exe -G whatmodel.sh/stt -d max=0 --data-urlencode "ram=$((gcim Win32_ComputerSystem).TotalPhysicalMemory)" --data-urlencode "nv=$(nvidia-smi --query-gpu=name,memory.total --format=csv,noheader 2>$null)"Windows

$ terminal

detecting your OS…

Run curl "whatmodel.sh/stt?ram=8&gpu=apple"to get this list in your terminal (add &format=json for agents).

ram[8][16][24][32][48][64][96][128][192][256]GB
gpu[apple silicon][graphics card][none]
price[local][$0.001][$0.002][$0.005][$0.01][any]max per audio min

detecting your OS…

Score vs API price

#modelscore↓where↓speed↓RAM↓get itsources
#modelscore↓where↓speed↓RAM↓get itsources
1Muse Voice Transcribe 1.0 Meta71±3*api $0.0030/audio mindeveloper.meta.com ↗Pipecat STT Benchmark · semantic WER results table (pipecat-ai/stt-benchmark README)
2Grok Voice Transcribe 2.0 xAI70±3*api $0.0017/audio mindocs.x.ai ↗Pipecat STT Benchmark · semantic WER results table (pipecat-ai/stt-benchmark README)
4Universal-3.6 Pro Realtime AssemblyAI70±3*api $0.0075/audio minwww.assemblyai.com ↗Pipecat STT Benchmark · semantic WER results table (pipecat-ai/stt-benchmark README)
5Linden 1 (Agent STT) Speechmatics69±3*api $0.0050/audio minwww.speechmatics.com ↗Pipecat STT Benchmark · semantic WER results table (pipecat-ai/stt-benchmark README)
6Soniox v5 Async Soniox68±5*api $0.0017/audio minsoniox.com ↗Bangla Speech-to-Text Benchmark v1.0 (Riverborn)
7Ink-2 Cartesia68±3*api $0.0065/audio mindocs.cartesia.ai ↗Pipecat STT Benchmark · semantic WER results table (pipecat-ai/stt-benchmark README)
8Universal-3.5 Pro AssemblyAI67±3api $0.0035/audio minwww.assemblyai.com ↗Pipecat STT Benchmark · semantic WER results table (pipecat-ai/stt-benchmark README)verliapp/stt-benchmark · independent STT accuracy benchmarkCoSE-E: A Benchmark for Code-switched Speech Evaluation in Enterprise Settings (arXiv:2609.35645v1), Table 2
9Soniox v5 Real-Time Soniox67±3*api $0.0020/audio minsoniox.com ↗Pipecat STT Benchmark · semantic WER results table (pipecat-ai/stt-benchmark README)
11Gemini 3.5 Transcribe Google67±6*api $0.0050/audio minai.google.dev ↗Persian ASR Triple Threat Leaderboard (Reza2kn)
12Scribe v2 ElevenLabs66±1api $0.0037/audio minelevenlabs.io ↗Open ASR LeaderboardGigaSpeechBench: A Real-World Multilingual Speech-to-Text BenchmarkVoiceCodeBench (arXiv:2608.28916v2) · structured-token recovery ASR benchmarkCoSE-E: A Benchmark for Code-switched Speech Evaluation in Enterprise Settings (arXiv:2609.35645v1), Table 2BOTNOI Thai telephony ASR report (arXiv:2608.24916v1) · baseline CERsRW-Voice-EQ Bench (Hume AI)+9
13GPT Transcribe OpenAI64±4api $0.0045/audio mindevelopers.openai.com ↗VoiceCodeBench (arXiv:2608.28916v2) · structured-token recovery ASR benchmarkDanish Speech-to-Text Leaderboard (RyeAI) · results dataset
14Zoom Scribe v1 Zoom64±5*api price unknowndevelopers.zoom.us ↗Open ASR Leaderboard
15Granite Speech 5.0 470M TurboCTC NC · q8_0-gguf (transcribe.cpp) IBM64±4*local~0.5GBhow to run › transcribe.cpp model catalog · LibriSpeech test-clean WER of validated full-precision ports
16Cohere Transcribe Arabic (07-2026) · bf16 (transformers >=5.4.0) Cohere63±3local~4.1GBhow to run › transcribe.cpp model catalog · LibriSpeech test-clean WER of validated full-precision portsQCRI Arabic + English ASR leaderboard (Hugging Face Space QCRI/AURA-Arabic-English-ASR-leaderboard)Open Universal Arabic ASR Leaderboard (Elm Research Center)
20Granite Speech 5.0 470M TurboCTC · bf16 IBM62±4*local~1.6GBhow to run › transcribe.cpp model catalog · LibriSpeech test-clean WER of validated full-precision ports
21MAI-Transcribe-1.5 Microsoft AI62±8*api $0.0060/audio minazure.microsoft.com ↗koedesk STT Bench v1 (Track A, FLEURS first-200)
22Fish Audio Transcribe 1 Fish Audio62±5api $0.0060/audio mindocs.fish.audio ↗verliapp/stt-benchmark · independent STT accuracy benchmark
23Inworld STT-1 Inworld62±6*api $0.0025/audio mindocs.inworld.ai ↗verliapp/stt-benchmark · independent STT accuracy benchmark
25Cohere Transcribe (03-2026) Cohere62±2api $0.0042/audio minfal.ai ↗Open ASR Leaderboardtranscribe.cpp model catalog · LibriSpeech test-clean WER of validated full-precision portsDutch ASR Leaderboard (tvosch) · committed result filesOpen Universal Arabic ASR Leaderboard (Elm Research Center)Quranic ASR Leaderboard (Quran-Lab, held-out recitation set)Dysarthric ASR with clinical context on the Speech Accessibility Project (arXiv:2605.02782v2)
26Granite Speech 4.1 2B NAR · q8_0-gguf (transcribe.cpp) IBM62±4*local~2.5GBhow to run › transcribe.cpp model catalog · LibriSpeech test-clean WER of validated full-precision ports
27Nova-3 Deepgram61±2api $0.0052/audio mindevelopers.cloudflare.com ↗Pipecat STT Benchmark · semantic WER results table (pipecat-ai/stt-benchmark README)Russian STT benchmark by domainVoiceCodeBench (arXiv:2608.28916v2) · structured-token recovery ASR benchmarkBangla Speech-to-Text Benchmark v1.0 (Riverborn)verliapp/stt-benchmark · independent STT accuracy benchmarkCoSE-E: A Benchmark for Code-switched Speech Evaluation in Enterprise Settings (arXiv:2609.35645v1), Table 2+6
29Pulse (STT) Smallest.ai61±3*api $0.0040/audio mindocs.smallest.ai ↗Pipecat STT Benchmark · semantic WER results table (pipecat-ai/stt-benchmark README)
31Chirp 3 Google61±2api price unknowncloud.google.com ↗Open ASR LeaderboardAfriSpeech-MultiBench (arXiv:2511.14255v1) · African-accented English ASR benchmark suiteGigaSpeechBench: A Real-World Multilingual Speech-to-Text BenchmarkVoiceCodeBench (arXiv:2608.28916v2) · structured-token recovery ASR benchmarkBOTNOI Thai telephony ASR report (arXiv:2608.24916v1) · baseline CERsRW-Voice-EQ Bench (Hume AI)+4
32Voxtral Small 24B (2507) Mistral61±2api $0.0040/audio mindocs.mistral.ai ↗Mistral AI — Voxtral technical reportOpen ASR Leaderboardtranscribe.cpp model catalog · LibriSpeech test-clean WER of validated full-precision portsCoSE-E: A Benchmark for Code-switched Speech Evaluation in Enterprise Settings (arXiv:2609.35645v1), Table 2Danish Speech-to-Text Leaderboard (RyeAI) · results datasetOpen Universal Arabic ASR Leaderboard (Elm Research Center)+1
33Gemini 3.5 Transcribe Live Google61±3*api $0.0090/audio minai.google.dev ↗Pipecat STT Benchmark · semantic WER results table (pipecat-ai/stt-benchmark README)
34Granite Speech 4.1 2B Plus · q8_0-gguf (transcribe.cpp) IBM61±4*local~2.4GBhow to run › transcribe.cpp model catalog · LibriSpeech test-clean WER of validated full-precision ports
35Parakeet TDT 0.6B v2 · onnx-fp32 NVIDIA60±1local~3.4GBhow to run › NVIDIA ASR model cards (Parakeet / Canary, Hugging Face)AfriSpeech-MultiBench (arXiv:2511.14255v1) · African-accented English ASR benchmark suiteOpen ASR Leaderboardtranscribe.cpp model catalog · LibriSpeech test-clean WER of validated full-precision portsmicrosoft/VibeVoice-ASR-BitNet model card (Accuracy table)Switch-aware evaluation of ASR on English-Yoruba code-switched speech (arXiv:2609.11786v1)+1
37Parakeet Unified EN 0.6B · q8_0-gguf (transcribe.cpp) NVIDIA60±4*local~0.7GBhow to run › transcribe.cpp model catalog · LibriSpeech test-clean WER of validated full-precision ports
39Qwen3-ASR-1.7B · 8bit Alibaba (Qwen)60±1local~3.3GBhow to run › Qwen/Qwen3-ASR-1.7B model cardOpen ASR Leaderboardtranscribe.cpp model catalog · LibriSpeech test-clean WER of validated full-precision portsGigaSpeechBench: A Real-World Multilingual Speech-to-Text BenchmarkMega-ASR (arXiv:2605.19833v1) · adverse-condition ASR baselines (CHiME-4, VOiCES, NOIZEUS)RW-Voice-EQ Bench (Hume AI)+10
42Speechmatics Enhanced Speechmatics60±2api $0.0067/audio minwww.speechmatics.com ↗Open ASR Leaderboardverliapp/stt-benchmark · independent STT accuracy benchmarkRW-Voice-EQ Bench (Hume AI)Quranic ASR Leaderboard (Quran-Lab, held-out recitation set)
43Deepgram Nova 2 Deepgram60±4api $0.0058/audio mindeepgram.com ↗Russian STT benchmark by domain
46Voxtral Mini Transcribe V2 Mistral59±3api $0.0030/audio mindocs.mistral.ai ↗Voxtral RealtimeDutch ASR Leaderboard (tvosch) · committed result fileskoedesk STT Bench v1 (Track A, FLEURS first-200)
48GPT-Realtime-Whisper OpenAI59±3*api $0.017/audio mindevelopers.openai.com ↗Pipecat STT Benchmark · semantic WER results table (pipecat-ai/stt-benchmark README)
50Parakeet Ultra · q8_0-gguf (transcribe.cpp) Moondream59±3local~0.7GBhow to run › Moondream parakeet-ultra and parakeet-redux model cards (Benchmarks sections)transcribe.cpp model catalog · LibriSpeech test-clean WER of validated full-precision ports
52Voxtral Mini 3B (2507) Mistral58±1api $0.0010/audio min~12GBdeepinfra.com ↗Mistral AI — Voxtral technical reportOpen ASR LeaderboardAfriSpeech-MultiBench (arXiv:2511.14255v1) · African-accented English ASR benchmark suitetranscribe.cpp model catalog · LibriSpeech test-clean WER of validated full-precision portsMega-ASR (arXiv:2605.19833v1) · adverse-condition ASR baselines (CHiME-4, VOiCES, NOIZEUS)Open ASR Leaderboard – Chilean Spanish (idsudd / Alonso Astroza)+5
53Universal-Streaming (English) AssemblyAI58±3*api $0.0025/audio minwww.assemblyai.com ↗Pipecat STT Benchmark · semantic WER results table (pipecat-ai/stt-benchmark README)
55Chirp 2 Google58±3api price unknowncloud.google.com ↗Bangla Speech-to-Text Benchmark v1.0 (Riverborn)verliapp/stt-benchmark · independent STT accuracy benchmarkOpen ASR Leaderboard
56Canary-1B-v2 · onnx-fp32 NVIDIA58±1local~5.2GBhow to run › NVIDIA ASR model cards (Parakeet / Canary, Hugging Face)Open ASR Leaderboardtranscribe.cpp model catalog · LibriSpeech test-clean WER of validated full-precision portsCanary-1B-v2 & Parakeet-TDT-0.6B-v3: Efficient and High-Performance Models for Multilingual ASR and AST (NVIDIA, arXiv:2509.14128v2)Mega-ASR (arXiv:2605.19833v1) · adverse-condition ASR baselines (CHiME-4, VOiCES, NOIZEUS)Open ASR Leaderboard – Chilean Spanish (idsudd / Alonso Astroza)+2
61Whisper large-v3-turbo · fp16 OpenAI57±1local~2.4GBhow to run › distil-whisper/distil-large-v3.5 model cardOpen ASR Leaderboardtranscribe.cpp model catalog · LibriSpeech test-clean WER of validated full-precision portsverliapp/stt-benchmark · independent STT accuracy benchmarkLiteASR (arXiv:2502.20583v2) · ESB WER of Whisper and LiteASR-compressed encodersRussian ASR Leaderboard (ESpeech; benchmark by Nikolay Shmyrev)+7
63Fun-ASR-MLT-Nano-2512 · q8_0-gguf (transcribe.cpp) Alibaba (FunAudioLLM)57±4local~0.9GBhow to run › transcribe.cpp model catalog · LibriSpeech test-clean WER of validated full-precision ports
64Parakeet Redux · ternary 1.58-bit (Photon) Moondream57±4†local~0.2GBhow to run › Moondream parakeet-ultra and parakeet-redux model cards (Benchmarks sections)
65Parakeet TDT 0.6B v3 · onnx-fp32 NVIDIA57±1local~3.5GBhow to run › NVIDIA ASR model cards (Parakeet / Canary, Hugging Face)Open ASR LeaderboardMoondream parakeet-ultra and parakeet-redux model cards (Benchmarks sections)transcribe.cpp model catalog · LibriSpeech test-clean WER of validated full-precision portsCanary-1B-v2 & Parakeet-TDT-0.6B-v3: Efficient and High-Performance Models for Multilingual ASR and AST (NVIDIA, arXiv:2509.14128v2)Russian STT benchmark by domain+11
67Whisper large-v3 · fp16 OpenAI57±1local~4.2GBhow to run › Mistral AI — Voxtral technical reportOpen ASR LeaderboardQwen/Qwen3-ASR-1.7B model carddistil-whisper/distil-large-v3.5 model cardAfriSpeech-MultiBench (arXiv:2511.14255v1) · African-accented English ASR benchmark suitetranscribe.cpp model catalog · LibriSpeech test-clean WER of validated full-precision ports+25
71Orukeet · q8_0-gguf (transcribe.cpp) Oruk AI57±4*local~0.7GBhow to run › transcribe.cpp model catalog · LibriSpeech test-clean WER of validated full-precision ports
73Parakeet TDT-CTC 1.1B · q8_0-gguf (transcribe.cpp) NVIDIA56±4*local~1.3GBhow to run › transcribe.cpp model catalog · LibriSpeech test-clean WER of validated full-precision ports
74GPT-4o Mini Transcribe OpenAI56±2api $0.0030/audio mindevelopers.openai.com ↗Mistral AI — Voxtral technical reportVoxtral Realtimemu-bench: A Multilingual Utterance Transcription Benchmark (arXiv:2609.32082v1), Table 5Danish Speech-to-Text Leaderboard (RyeAI) · results dataset
77Distil-Whisper distil-large-v3 · fp16 Hugging Face (Distil-Whisper)56±2local~2.3GBhow to run › distil-whisper/distil-large-v3.5 model cardOpen ASR Leaderboardhuggingface/distil-whisper README (Distil-Whisper headline WER table)
80Fun-ASR-Nano-2512 · q8_0-gguf (transcribe.cpp) Alibaba (FunAudioLLM)55±3local~0.9GBhow to run › transcribe.cpp model catalog · LibriSpeech test-clean WER of validated full-precision portsmicrosoft/VibeVoice-ASR-BitNet model card (Accuracy table)
81Scribe v2 Realtime ElevenLabs55±3*api $0.0065/audio minelevenlabs.io ↗Pipecat STT Benchmark · semantic WER results table (pipecat-ai/stt-benchmark README)
88Ink-Whisper Cartesia55±3api price unknowndocs.cartesia.ai ↗Pipecat STT Benchmark · semantic WER results table (pipecat-ai/stt-benchmark README)verliapp/stt-benchmark · independent STT accuracy benchmark
89Breeze ASR 25 · q8_0-gguf (transcribe.cpp) MediaTek Research54±4local~1.7GBhow to run › transcribe.cpp model catalog · LibriSpeech test-clean WER of validated full-precision ports
93MOSS-Transcribe-Diarize 0.9B · q8_0-gguf (transcribe.cpp) OpenMOSS54±4local~1GBhow to run › transcribe.cpp model catalog · LibriSpeech test-clean WER of validated full-precision ports
94GPT-4o Transcribe OpenAI53±1api $0.0060/audio mindevelopers.openai.com ↗Qwen/Qwen3-ASR-1.7B model cardAfriSpeech-MultiBench (arXiv:2511.14255v1) · African-accented English ASR benchmark suitePipecat STT Benchmark · semantic WER results table (pipecat-ai/stt-benchmark README)GigaSpeechBench: A Real-World Multilingual Speech-to-Text BenchmarkQwen-Audio-3.0-ASR Technical Report (arXiv:2609.07549v2)Bangla Speech-to-Text Benchmark v1.0 (Riverborn)+5
96Voxtral Mini 4B Realtime (2602) · 4bit Mistral53±2local~3.2GBhow to run › Open ASR LeaderboardPipecat STT Benchmark · semantic WER results table (pipecat-ai/stt-benchmark README)Voxtral Realtimetranscribe.cpp model catalog · LibriSpeech test-clean WER of validated full-precision portsVibeVoice-ASR-Streaming Technical Report (arXiv:2609.02812v2), Table 3 single-speaker recognitionDutch ASR Leaderboard (tvosch) · committed result files+1
97Parakeet primeline (German) · q8_0-gguf (transcribe.cpp) primeLine53±4*local~0.7GBhow to run › transcribe.cpp model catalog · LibriSpeech test-clean WER of validated full-precision ports
99Omnilingual ASR LLM 300M · bf16 Meta52±2local~4.4GBhow to run › Open ASR LeaderboardOmnilingual ASR: Open-Source Multilingual Speech Recognition for 1600+ Languages (arXiv:2511.09690v1)Open Universal Arabic ASR Leaderboard (Elm Research Center)Quranic ASR Leaderboard (Quran-Lab, held-out recitation set)
100Rev AI Machine (Reverb ASR) Rev52±3api $0.0033/audio mindocs.rev.ai ↗Open ASR Leaderboardverliapp/stt-benchmark · independent STT accuracy benchmark
104Omnilingual ASR CTC 1B · bf16 Meta51±2local~2.9GBhow to run › Open ASR LeaderboardOmnilingual ASR: Open-Source Multilingual Speech Recognition for 1600+ Languages (arXiv:2511.09690v1)Open Universal Arabic ASR Leaderboard (Elm Research Center)
105Whisper large-v2 · fp16 OpenAI51±2local~4.2GBhow to run › transcribe.cpp model catalog · LibriSpeech test-clean WER of validated full-precision portsOpen ASR LeaderboardPESTE · Persian Speech to Text benchmark (fleurs-fa-ir-v1)German dialect ASR Benchmark (Betthupferl; kamaal-08/bavarian-asr-leaderboard)Open Universal Arabic ASR Leaderboard (Elm Research Center)Turkish ASR Leaderboard (TurkASR-Bench, yagmurtuncer)+1
107Omnilingual ASR LLM 300M v2 · bf16 Meta51±3*local~4.4GBhow to run › Open ASR Leaderboard
108Moonshine Streaming Medium · fp32 Useful Sensors (Moonshine AI)50±3local~1.8GBhow to run › transcribe.cpp model catalog · LibriSpeech test-clean WER of validated full-precision portsOpen ASR LeaderboardPicovoice speech-to-text-benchmark · English batch-engine WER (README)
109VibeVoice-ASR-BitNet · I8_S VAE + I2_S LM (Q6_K embeddings) GGUF, VibeASR.cpp Microsoft50±4†local~1.7GBhow to run › microsoft/VibeVoice-ASR-BitNet model card (Accuracy table)
115Multitalker Parakeet Streaming 0.6B v1 · q8_0-gguf (transcribe.cpp) NVIDIA50±4*local~0.9GBhow to run › transcribe.cpp model catalog · LibriSpeech test-clean WER of validated full-precision ports
116Omnilingual ASR CTC 1B v2 · bf16 Meta50±3local~2.9GBhow to run › Open ASR LeaderboardGerman dialect ASR Benchmark (Betthupferl; kamaal-08/bavarian-asr-leaderboard)Benchmarking Automatic Speech Recognition Tools for Iberian Languages (arXiv:2609.36920v1), Table 3
117Whisper large (v1) · fp16 OpenAI49±2local~4.2GBhow to run › transcribe.cpp model catalog · LibriSpeech test-clean WER of validated full-precision portsOpen ASR LeaderboardOpen Universal Arabic ASR Leaderboard (Elm Research Center)AfriSpeech-200 (arXiv:2310.00274v1) · zero-shot WER of open ASR models on African-accented English
119Nemotron Speech Streaming EN 0.6B · q8_0-gguf (transcribe.cpp) NVIDIA49±4*local~0.7GBhow to run › transcribe.cpp model catalog · LibriSpeech test-clean WER of validated full-precision ports
121Whisper medium.en · fp32 OpenAI48±3local~4.2GBhow to run › transcribe.cpp model catalog · LibriSpeech test-clean WER of validated full-precision portsOpen ASR LeaderboardPicovoice speech-to-text-benchmark · English batch-engine WER (README)AfriSpeech-200 (arXiv:2310.00274v1) · zero-shot WER of open ASR models on African-accented EnglishSpeech Robust Bench (arXiv:2403.07937v3) · clean-speech WER of 25+ open ASR models
122Distil-Whisper distil-large-v2 · fp16 Hugging Face (Distil-Whisper)48±2local~2.3GBhow to run › distil-whisper/distil-large-v3.5 model cardOpen ASR Leaderboardhuggingface/distil-whisper README (Distil-Whisper headline WER table)
123Distil-Whisper distil-small.en · fp16 Hugging Face (Distil-Whisper)48±4*local~0.9GBhow to run › Open ASR Leaderboardhuggingface/distil-whisper README (Distil-Whisper headline WER table)
124CrisperWhisper · fp16 Nyra Health47±3local~4.4GBhow to run › AfriSpeech-MultiBench (arXiv:2511.14255v1) · African-accented English ASR benchmark suiteOpen ASR Leaderboard
126SpeechBrain Conformer (LargeScaleASR / Loquacious) · fp32 SpeechBrain47±5*local~2.8GBhow to run › Open ASR LeaderboardSpeechBrain Hugging Face ASR model cards: published LibriSpeech/VoxPopuli WER for its own checkpoints
127GigaAM Multilingual Large (CTC 600M) · fp32 (transformers remote code) Sber47±7*†local~2.3GBhow to run › ai-sage/GigaAM-Multilingual model card (Model Performance table)
129ESPnet E-Branchformer (no LM) · fp32 (espnet 202610.post2 + espnet_model_zoo 0.1.11) ESPnet46±4*†local~0.8GBhow to run › ESPnet LibriSpeech ASR recipe results (pinned September 2026)
130ESPnet Multiconvformer (no LM) · fp32 (espnet 202610.post2 + espnet_model_zoo 0.1.11) ESPnet46±4*†local~0.8GBhow to run › ESPnet LibriSpeech ASR recipe results (pinned September 2026)
132Moonshine Streaming Small · fp32 Useful Sensors (Moonshine AI)46±3local~1.2GBhow to run › transcribe.cpp model catalog · LibriSpeech test-clean WER of validated full-precision portsOpen ASR LeaderboardPicovoice speech-to-text-benchmark · English batch-engine WER (README)
133SenseVoice Small · q8_0-gguf (transcribe.cpp) Alibaba (FunAudioLLM)46±3local~0.3GBhow to run › transcribe.cpp model catalog · LibriSpeech test-clean WER of validated full-precision portsmicrosoft/VibeVoice-ASR-BitNet model card (Accuracy table)
137Omnilingual ASR CTC 300M · bf16 Meta45±2local~1.3GBhow to run › Open ASR LeaderboardOmnilingual ASR: Open-Source Multilingual Speech Recognition for 1600+ Languages (arXiv:2511.09690v1)Open Universal Arabic ASR Leaderboard (Elm Research Center)
138Distil-Whisper distil-medium.en · fp16 Hugging Face (Distil-Whisper)44±3local~1.4GBhow to run › Open ASR Leaderboardhuggingface/distil-whisper README (Distil-Whisper headline WER table)
139Whisper small.en · fp32 OpenAI44±3local~1.7GBhow to run › transcribe.cpp model catalog · LibriSpeech test-clean WER of validated full-precision portsOpen ASR LeaderboardPicovoice speech-to-text-benchmark · English batch-engine WER (README)AfriSpeech-200 (arXiv:2310.00274v1) · zero-shot WER of open ASR models on African-accented EnglishSpeech Robust Bench (arXiv:2403.07937v3) · clean-speech WER of 25+ open ASR models
140ESPnet Branchformer 18-layer (70 epochs, no LM) · fp32 (espnet 202610.post2 + espnet_model_zoo 0.1.11) ESPnet44±4*†local~0.7GBhow to run › ESPnet LibriSpeech ASR recipe results (pinned September 2026)
141Nemotron 3.5 ASR Streaming 0.6B · fp32 (transformers >=5.13.0) NVIDIA44±3local~2.6GBhow to run › transcribe.cpp model catalog · LibriSpeech test-clean WER of validated full-precision portsVibeVoice-ASR-Streaming Technical Report (arXiv:2609.02812v2), Table 3 single-speaker recognitionPicovoice speech-to-text-benchmark · English batch-engine WER (README)Danish Speech-to-Text Leaderboard (RyeAI) · results datasetOpen Universal Arabic ASR Leaderboard (Elm Research Center)
142Whisper medium · fp32 OpenAI43±2local~4.2GBhow to run › transcribe.cpp model catalog · LibriSpeech test-clean WER of validated full-precision portsESPnet LibriSpeech ASR recipe results (pinned September 2026)Omnilingual ASR: Open-Source Multilingual Speech Recognition for 1600+ Languages (arXiv:2511.09690v1)LiteASR (arXiv:2502.20583v2) · ESB WER of Whisper and LiteASR-compressed encodersPESTE · Persian Speech to Text benchmark (fleurs-fa-ir-v1)German dialect ASR Benchmark (Betthupferl; kamaal-08/bavarian-asr-leaderboard)+4
143Omnilingual ASR CTC 300M v2 · bf16 Meta43±3*local~1.3GBhow to run › Open ASR Leaderboard
145ESPnet Conformer 2020 + RNN LM · fp32 (espnet 202610.post2 + espnet_model_zoo 0.1.11) ESPnet43±4*†local~1GBhow to run › ESPnet LibriSpeech ASR recipe results (pinned September 2026)
147GigaAM Multilingual (CTC 220M) · fp32 (transformers remote code) Sber42±7*†local~0.9GBhow to run › ai-sage/GigaAM-Multilingual model card (Model Performance table)
148ESPnet Transformer 18-layer + RNN LM · fp32 (espnet 202610.post2 + espnet_model_zoo 0.1.11) ESPnet42±4*†local~1GBhow to run › ESPnet LibriSpeech ASR recipe results (pinned September 2026)
149ABR asr-19m-v2-en · fp32 TorchScript (transformers remote code @ dab6545) Applied Brain Research41±5*local~0.1GBhow to run › Open ASR Leaderboard
154Whisper small · fp32 OpenAI39±2local~1.7GBhow to run › transcribe.cpp model catalog · LibriSpeech test-clean WER of validated full-precision portsOmnilingual ASR: Open-Source Multilingual Speech Recognition for 1600+ Languages (arXiv:2511.09690v1)verliapp/stt-benchmark · independent STT accuracy benchmarkPESTE · Persian Speech to Text benchmark (fleurs-fa-ir-v1)Open ASR Leaderboard – Chilean Spanish (idsudd / Alonso Astroza)German dialect ASR Benchmark (Betthupferl; kamaal-08/bavarian-asr-leaderboard)+5
155Moonshine Base · fp32 Useful Sensors (Moonshine AI)38±3local~0.8GBhow to run › transcribe.cpp model catalog · LibriSpeech test-clean WER of validated full-precision portsOpen ASR Leaderboard
156Whisper base.en · fp32 OpenAI35±3local~0.9GBhow to run › transcribe.cpp model catalog · LibriSpeech test-clean WER of validated full-precision portsOpen ASR LeaderboardPicovoice speech-to-text-benchmark · English batch-engine WER (README)Speech Robust Bench (arXiv:2403.07937v3) · clean-speech WER of 25+ open ASR models
157SpeechBrain wav2vec2 CTC (LibriSpeech) · fp32 SpeechBrain35±4local~2GBhow to run › Open ASR LeaderboardSpeechBrain Hugging Face ASR model cards: published LibriSpeech/VoxPopuli WER for its own checkpoints
158Vosk small en-us 0.15 · kaldi Alpha Cephei (Vosk)31±6local~0.3GBhow to run › Picovoice speech-to-text-benchmark · English batch-engine WER (README)Alpha Cephei Vosk models page (vendor-reported WER for its own Vosk models)
159Moonshine Tiny · fp32 Useful Sensors (Moonshine AI)29±3local~0.6GBhow to run › transcribe.cpp model catalog · LibriSpeech test-clean WER of validated full-precision portsOpen ASR Leaderboard
160Moonshine Streaming Tiny · fp32 Useful Sensors (Moonshine AI)28±3local~0.7GBhow to run › transcribe.cpp model catalog · LibriSpeech test-clean WER of validated full-precision portsOpen ASR LeaderboardPicovoice speech-to-text-benchmark · English batch-engine WER (README)
161Whisper tiny.en · fp32 OpenAI27±3local~0.7GBhow to run › transcribe.cpp model catalog · LibriSpeech test-clean WER of validated full-precision portsOpen ASR LeaderboardPicovoice speech-to-text-benchmark · English batch-engine WER (README)Speech Robust Bench (arXiv:2403.07937v3) · clean-speech WER of 25+ open ASR models
162MMS-1B-all · fp32 Meta25±3local~5.1GBhow to run › Open ASR LeaderboardGerman dialect ASR Benchmark (Betthupferl; kamaal-08/bavarian-asr-leaderboard)Danish Speech-to-Text Leaderboard (RyeAI) · results datasetOpen Universal Arabic ASR Leaderboard (Elm Research Center)Turkish ASR Leaderboard (TurkASR-Bench, yagmurtuncer)Quranic ASR Leaderboard (Quran-Lab, held-out recitation set)
163Whisper base · fp32 OpenAI25±3local~0.9GBhow to run › transcribe.cpp model catalog · LibriSpeech test-clean WER of validated full-precision portsPESTE · Persian Speech to Text benchmark (fleurs-fa-ir-v1)German dialect ASR Benchmark (Betthupferl; kamaal-08/bavarian-asr-leaderboard)Danish Speech-to-Text Leaderboard (RyeAI) · results datasetTurkish ASR Leaderboard (TurkASR-Bench, yagmurtuncer)Speech Robust Bench (arXiv:2403.07937v3) · clean-speech WER of 25+ open ASR models
164wav2vec 2.0 Large 960h LV-60 self-training · fp32 Meta16±3local~2GBhow to run › Meta (facebook org) Hugging Face ASR model cards: published LibriSpeech WER for its own checkpointsOpen ASR LeaderboardAfriSpeech-200 (arXiv:2310.00274v1) · zero-shot WER of open ASR models on African-accented EnglishSpeech Robust Bench (arXiv:2403.07937v3) · clean-speech WER of 25+ open ASR models
165HuBERT X-Large (LibriSpeech 960h ft) · fp32 Meta16±4local~5.1GBhow to run › Open ASR LeaderboardMeta (facebook org) Hugging Face ASR model cards: published LibriSpeech WER for its own checkpointsAfriSpeech-200 (arXiv:2310.00274v1) · zero-shot WER of open ASR models on African-accented EnglishSpeech Robust Bench (arXiv:2403.07937v3) · clean-speech WER of 25+ open ASR models
166HuBERT Large (LibriSpeech 960h ft) · fp32 Meta15±4local~2GBhow to run › Open ASR LeaderboardMeta (facebook org) Hugging Face ASR model cards: published LibriSpeech WER for its own checkpointsSpeech Robust Bench (arXiv:2403.07937v3) · clean-speech WER of 25+ open ASR models
167wav2vec 2.0 Large Robust (LibriSpeech 960h ft) · fp32 Meta15±5local~2GBhow to run › Open ASR LeaderboardSpeech Robust Bench (arXiv:2403.07937v3) · clean-speech WER of 25+ open ASR modelsDysarthric ASR with clinical context on the Speech Accessibility Project (arXiv:2605.02782v2)
168Whisper tiny · fp32 OpenAI14±3local~0.7GBhow to run › transcribe.cpp model catalog · LibriSpeech test-clean WER of validated full-precision portsPESTE · Persian Speech to Text benchmark (fleurs-fa-ir-v1)German dialect ASR Benchmark (Betthupferl; kamaal-08/bavarian-asr-leaderboard)Danish Speech-to-Text Leaderboard (RyeAI) · results datasetTurkish ASR Leaderboard (TurkASR-Bench, yagmurtuncer)Speech Robust Bench (arXiv:2403.07937v3) · clean-speech WER of 25+ open ASR models
169wav2vec 2.0 Conformer Rel-Pos Large 960h · fp32 Meta14±4local~3.5GBhow to run › Meta (facebook org) Hugging Face ASR model cards: published LibriSpeech WER for its own checkpointsOpen ASR Leaderboard
170wav2vec 2.0 Conformer RoPE Large 960h · fp32 Meta13±4local~3.3GBhow to run › Meta (facebook org) Hugging Face ASR model cards: published LibriSpeech WER for its own checkpointsOpen ASR Leaderboard
171data2vec Audio Large 960h · fp32 Meta13±4local~2GBhow to run › Meta (facebook org) Hugging Face ASR model cards: published LibriSpeech WER for its own checkpointsOpen ASR Leaderboard
172wav2vec 2.0 Large 960h · fp32 Meta7±3local~2GBhow to run › Meta (facebook org) Hugging Face ASR model cards: published LibriSpeech WER for its own checkpointsOpen ASR LeaderboardAfriSpeech-200 (arXiv:2310.00274v1) · zero-shot WER of open ASR models on African-accented EnglishSpeech Robust Bench (arXiv:2403.07937v3) · clean-speech WER of 25+ open ASR modelsDysarthric ASR with clinical context on the Speech Accessibility Project (arXiv:2605.02782v2)
173data2vec Audio Base 960h · fp32 Meta4±4local~1GBhow to run › Meta (facebook org) Hugging Face ASR model cards: published LibriSpeech WER for its own checkpointsOpen ASR Leaderboard
174wav2vec 2.0 Base 960h · fp32 Meta2±3local~1GBhow to run › Meta (facebook org) Hugging Face ASR model cards: published LibriSpeech WER for its own checkpointsOpen ASR LeaderboardSpeech Robust Bench (arXiv:2403.07937v3) · clean-speech WER of 25+ open ASR models
175MMS-1B-FL102 · fp32 Meta-9±5local~5.1GBhow to run › Open ASR LeaderboardSpeech Robust Bench (arXiv:2403.07937v3) · clean-speech WER of 25+ open ASR models
176MedASR · q8_0-gguf (transcribe.cpp) Google-14±4*local~0.1GBhow to run › transcribe.cpp model catalog · LibriSpeech test-clean WER of validated full-precision ports
—MAI-Transcribe-2 Microsoft AIno reviewed resultsapi $0.0017/audio minazure.microsoft.com ↗
—Solaria-3 Gladiano reviewed resultsapi $0.010/audio minwww.gladia.io ↗

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