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granite-speech-4.1-2b

ibm-granite · granite-speech-4.1-2b

**Model Summary:** Granite Speech 4.1 2B is a compact and efficient speech-language model, specifically designed for multilingual automatic speech recognition (ASR) and bidirectional automatic speech translation (AST) for English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese and Japanese. The model was trained on 174,000 hours of audio from public corpora for ASR and AST as well as synthetic datasets tailored to support Japanese ASR, keyword-biased ASR and speech translation. Granite Speech 4.1 2B was trained by modality aligning an intermediate checkpoint of granite-4.0-1b-base to speech on publicly available open source corpora containing audio inputs and text targets. Compared to its predecessor granite-4.0-1b-speech, this model has the same parameter count (the new naming convention reflects actual instead of base LLM size) and provides additional capabilities and improvements: * Higher transcription accuracy for multilingual ASR due to a novel dual-head CTC encoder with both graphemic and BPE outputs and frame importance sampling to focus on informative parts of the audio * Punctuation and truecasing for ASR and AST in all languages (including German noun capitalization) with a simple prompt change * Better keyword list biasing capability for enhanced recognition of names, acronyms and technical jargon Two additional model variants explore different capabilities and inference optimization: * granite-speech-4.1-2b-plus adds speaker-attributed ASR and word-level time stamps * granite-speech-4.1-2b-nar introduces a novel non-autoregressive architecture for higher throughput

Speech recognitionlicense:apache-2.0
Context windowNot disclosed
Input → OutputAudio → Text
Model weightsNot verified
Profile updated2026/10/29 11:52:01
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Model overview

**Model Summary:** Granite Speech 4.1 2B is a compact and efficient speech-language model, specifically designed for multilingual automatic speech recognition (ASR) and bidirectional automatic speech translation (AST) for English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese and Japanese. The model was trained on 174,000 hours of audio from public corpora for ASR and AST as well as synthetic datasets tailored to support Japanese ASR, keyword-biased ASR and speech translation. Granite Speech 4.1 2B was trained by modality aligning an intermediate checkpoint of granite-4.0-1b-base to speech on publicly available open source corpora containing audio inputs and text targets. Compared to its predecessor granite-4.0-1b-speech, this model has the same parameter count (the new naming convention reflects actual instead of base LLM size) and provides additional capabilities and improvements: * Higher transcription accuracy for multilingual ASR due to a novel dual-head CTC encoder with both graphemic and BPE outputs and frame importance sampling to focus on informative parts of the audio * Punctuation and truecasing for ASR and AST in all languages (including German noun capitalization) with a simple prompt change * Better keyword list biasing capability for enhanced recognition of names, acronyms and technical jargon Two additional model variants explore different capabilities and inference optimization: * granite-speech-4.1-2b-plus adds speaker-attributed ASR and word-level time stamps * granite-speech-4.1-2b-nar introduces a novel non-autoregressive architecture for higher throughput

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