Granite Speech 5.0: IBM releases Apache 2.0 speech models
IBM released granite-speech-5.0-2b and revised two more speech models, all under the Apache 2.0 license. Greek is not listed for the 2B and 470M models.
Source of truthhuggingface.co/…/granite-speech-5On October 21, IBM published granite-speech-5.0-2b on Hugging Face, along with revised versions of granite-speech-5.0-470m-turboctc and granite-speech-4.1-2b-plus. All three are released under the Apache 2.0 license. The 2B model transcribes English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese and Japanese, translates to and from English in those languages, and accepts keyword lists of up to 2,000 terms. It was trained on 390,000 hours of public audio and is supported in Transformers, vLLM, llama.cpp and mlx-audio. According to IBM, the 4.1-2b-plus update improves speaker attribution and timestamps. Greek is not listed for the 2B or the 470M model.
Other sources: huggingface.co/…/granite-speech-5.0-2bhuggingface.co/…/granite-speech-5.0-470…
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