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Best Open Speech Recognition (ASR) Models in 2026: WER, Languages, Latency, and License Compared
A roundup compares 16 open-weight ASR models, including Cohere Transcribe, IBM Granite Speech 4.1, ARK-ASR and MOSS-Transcribe, across WER, languages, streaming latency and licensing. It notes that close leaderboard scores make rank alone insufficient and that published averages are not directly comparable.