George Saon and IBM's speech team added a 2B multilingual model and revised two others, with performance figures largely reported by IBM.
By [RuntimeWire Staff](https://runtimewire.com/author/runtimewire-staff)
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Primary source: [Hugging Face Newsroom](https://huggingface.co/blog/ibm-granite/granite-speech-5)
Why it matters #
IBM is packaging speech AI around distinct deployment constraints, with separate models for multilingual translation, high-throughput transcription and speaker tracking. Its reported speed and accuracy results give buyers a starting point, but they still need to test the models on their own audio.
George Saon, IBM's speech strategy lead, and a team of researchers updated Granite Speech on October 21st with three models aimed at different jobs: multilingual transcription and translation, high-throughput speech recognition, and transcripts that track speakers and timing. The Hugging Face announcement adds one new model and revises two existing ones.…
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