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Best multilingual speech-to-text models

A leaderboard of the best multilingual speech-to-text models. Scribe v2 is #1 right now, followed by SeamlessM4T v2 Large and Universal-3 Pro. Models are ranked on transcription tests in many languages. Filter by your computer or budget to find the best one you can use.

37 models · scores combine 7 benchmarks · updated how it works · find a leaderboard · benchmark your machine
task[all tasks][long-form transcription][multilingual transcription]

Scores use reviewed multilingual transcription evaluations only. Compare scores within this task. Models without task measurements are excluded.

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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][any]max per audio min

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Score vs API price

#modeltask score↓where↓speed↓RAM↓get itsources
#modeltask score↓where↓speed↓RAM↓get itsources
1Scribe v2 ElevenLabs83±5api $0.0037/audio minelevenlabs.io ↗Benchmarking Automatic Speech Recognition Tools for Iberian Languages (arXiv:2609.36920v1), Table 3Open ASR LeaderboardCoSE-E: A Benchmark for Code-switched Speech Evaluation in Enterprise Settings (arXiv:2609.35645v1), Table 2mu-bench: A Multilingual Utterance Transcription Benchmark (arXiv:2609.32082v1), Table 5
2SeamlessM4T v2 Large Meta79±8*local~9.2GBhow to run › Benchmarking Automatic Speech Recognition Tools for Iberian Languages (arXiv:2609.36920v1), Table 3
3Universal-3 Pro AssemblyAI70±9*comparison onlyOpen ASR Leaderboard
4Universal-3.5 Pro AssemblyAI69±10*api $0.0035/audio minwww.assemblyai.com ↗CoSE-E: A Benchmark for Code-switched Speech Evaluation in Enterprise Settings (arXiv:2609.35645v1), Table 2
5Chirp 3 Google67±16*api price unknowncloud.google.com ↗mu-bench: A Multilingual Utterance Transcription Benchmark (arXiv:2609.32082v1), Table 5
6Voxtral Small 24B (2507) Mistral65±7*api $0.0040/audio min +local~59GBdocs.mistral.ai ↗Open ASR LeaderboardCoSE-E: A Benchmark for Code-switched Speech Evaluation in Enterprise Settings (arXiv:2609.35645v1), Table 2
7Cohere Transcribe (03-2026) Cohere64±9*api $0.0042/audio min +local~5.5GBfal.ai ↗Open ASR Leaderboard
8Whisper large-v3 OpenAI61±6*api $0.0018/audio min +local~4.2GBconsole.groq.com ↗Benchmarking Automatic Speech Recognition Tools for Iberian Languages (arXiv:2609.36920v1), Table 3Open ASR Leaderboard
9Speechmatics Enhanced Speechmatics60±9*api $0.0067/audio minwww.speechmatics.com ↗Open ASR Leaderboard
10Omnilingual ASR LLM 7B v2 Meta59±9*local~19GBhow to run › Open ASR Leaderboard
11Nova-3 Deepgram59±10*api $0.0052/audio mindevelopers.cloudflare.com ↗CoSE-E: A Benchmark for Code-switched Speech Evaluation in Enterprise Settings (arXiv:2609.35645v1), Table 2mu-bench: A Multilingual Utterance Transcription Benchmark (arXiv:2609.32082v1), Table 5
12Omnilingual ASR LLM 1B v2 Meta59±6*local~6GBhow to run › Benchmarking Automatic Speech Recognition Tools for Iberian Languages (arXiv:2609.36920v1), Table 3Open ASR Leaderboard
13Voxtral Mini 3B (2507) Mistral57±6*api $0.0010/audio min +local~12GBdeepinfra.com ↗Benchmarking Automatic Speech Recognition Tools for Iberian Languages (arXiv:2609.36920v1), Table 3Open ASR Leaderboard
14Omnilingual ASR LLM 7B Meta57±9*local~19GBhow to run › Open ASR Leaderboard
15Omnilingual ASR CTC 1B v2 Meta51±6*local~2.9GBhow to run › Benchmarking Automatic Speech Recognition Tools for Iberian Languages (arXiv:2609.36920v1), Table 3Open ASR Leaderboard
16Whisper large-v3-turbo OpenAI51±9*api $0.0005/audio min +local~2.4GBdevelopers.cloudflare.com ↗Open ASR Leaderboard
17Cohere Transcribe Arabic (07-2026) Cohere50±9*local~4.1GBhow to run › QCRI Arabic + English ASR leaderboard (Hugging Face Space QCRI/AURA-Arabic-English-ASR-leaderboard)
18Parakeet TDT 0.6B v3 NVIDIA49±6api $0.0015/audio min +local~2GBwww.together.ai ↗Benchmarking Automatic Speech Recognition Tools for Iberian Languages (arXiv:2609.36920v1), Table 3Open ASR LeaderboardCoSE-E: A Benchmark for Code-switched Speech Evaluation in Enterprise Settings (arXiv:2609.35645v1), Table 2
19Omnilingual ASR CTC 7B v2 Meta49±9*local~16GBhow to run › Open ASR Leaderboard
20Omnilingual ASR LLM 3B v2 Meta48±9*local~11GBhow to run › Open ASR Leaderboard
21Phi-4-multimodal-instruct Microsoft48±6*local~14GBhow to run › Benchmarking Automatic Speech Recognition Tools for Iberian Languages (arXiv:2609.36920v1), Table 3Open ASR Leaderboard
22Qwen3-ASR-1.7B Alibaba (Qwen)48±5api $0.0005/audio min +local~3.3GBdeepinfra.com ↗Benchmarking Automatic Speech Recognition Tools for Iberian Languages (arXiv:2609.36920v1), Table 3QCRI Arabic + English ASR leaderboard (Hugging Face Space QCRI/AURA-Arabic-English-ASR-leaderboard)Open ASR Leaderboard
23Omnilingual ASR CTC 3B v2 Meta47±9*local~7.9GBhow to run › Open ASR Leaderboard
24Omnilingual ASR CTC 7B Meta47±9*local~16GBhow to run › Open ASR Leaderboard
25Omnilingual ASR LLM 3B Meta46±9*local~11GBhow to run › Open ASR Leaderboard
26Canary-1B-v2 NVIDIA46±6*local~5.2GBhow to run › Benchmarking Automatic Speech Recognition Tools for Iberian Languages (arXiv:2609.36920v1), Table 3Open ASR Leaderboard
27Omnilingual ASR LLM 1B Meta44±9*local~6GBhow to run › Open ASR Leaderboard
28Voxtral Mini Transcribe V2 Mistral42±6*†api $0.0030/audio mindocs.mistral.ai ↗Voxtral Realtime
29Omnilingual ASR CTC 3B Meta41±9*local~7.9GBhow to run › Open ASR Leaderboard
30Qwen3-ASR-0.6B Alibaba (Qwen)38±7*local~2.8GBhow to run › QCRI Arabic + English ASR leaderboard (Hugging Face Space QCRI/AURA-Arabic-English-ASR-leaderboard)Open ASR Leaderboard
31Voxtral Mini 4B Realtime (2602) Mistral37±4api $0.0060/audio min +local~3.2GBdocs.mistral.ai ↗Voxtral RealtimeBenchmarking Automatic Speech Recognition Tools for Iberian Languages (arXiv:2609.36920v1), Table 3Open ASR Leaderboard
32GPT-4o Mini Transcribe OpenAI37±6api $0.0030/audio mindevelopers.openai.com ↗Voxtral Realtimemu-bench: A Multilingual Utterance Transcription Benchmark (arXiv:2609.32082v1), Table 5
33Omnilingual ASR LLM 300M v2 Meta35±9*local~4.4GBhow to run › Open ASR Leaderboard
34Omnilingual ASR CTC 1B Meta33±9*local~2.9GBhow to run › Open ASR Leaderboard
35Omnilingual ASR LLM 300M Meta31±9*local~4.4GBhow to run › Open ASR Leaderboard
36Omnilingual ASR CTC 300M v2 Meta14±9*local~1.3GBhow to run › Open ASR Leaderboard
37Omnilingual ASR CTC 300M Meta12±9*local~1.3GBhow to run › Open ASR Leaderboard

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* new or thinly tested: ranked on too few benchmark results · † only the maker’s own numbers so far · ~RAM is estimated; full context may need more memory