# IBM AI Releases Granite Speech 5.0 2B for Multilingual Transcription and Translation

> Source: <https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/10/22/ibm-granite-speech-5-0-2b-release/>
> Published: 2026-10-22 07:00:56+00:00

IBM released Granite Speech 5.0 2B, an Apache 2.0 speech recognition and translation model. It ranks #2 on the Open ASR Leaderboard with 5.68% average English WER, alongside updated Turbo CTC and 4.1 2B Plus models.

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