ModelMar 9, 2026

Granite 4.0 1B Speech: Compact, Multilingual, and Built for the Edge

Why It Matters

Granite 4.0 1B Speech offers high performance in speech recognition and translation with fewer parameters, making it ideal for edge applications.

Release Summary

Granite 4.0 1B Speech is a compact, multilingual speech-language model.
Designed for resource-constrained devices with improved English transcription accuracy.
Supports English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, and Japanese.
Features include Japanese ASR support and keyword list biasing.
Ranked #1 on the OpenASR leaderboard for strong ASR performance.

Source Links

https://huggingface.co/blog/ibm-granite/granite-4-speech

Tags

IBM Granite Speech Recognition Multilingual Edge Computing ASR AST Model Release OpenASR Apache 2.0

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