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Open ASR · AMI-Cleaned WEREnglish short-form; normalization unversioned · Lower is better
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English short-form word error rate after source text normalization. Lower is better; insertions can raise WER above 100%. Leaderboard publication; individual runner and verification status are not established unless separately attributed.
| # | Model | AMI-Cleaned WER | Configuration | API rate / unit | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | zoom/scribe_v2_prozoom | 6.08% WER | zoom/scribe_v2_proLeaderboard entry | See provider quotes | Result ↗Oct 21, 2026 |
| 2 | sophea/asr-k1 (preview)sophea | 6.28% WER | sophea/asr-k1 (preview)Leaderboard entry | See provider quotes | Result ↗Oct 21, 2026 |
| 3 | modulate/multilingualmodulate | 6.31% WER | modulate/multilingualLeaderboard entry | See provider quotes | Result ↗Oct 21, 2026 |
| 4 | OtterAI/speech-v3.1OtterAI | 6.42% WER | OtterAI/speech-v3.1Leaderboard entry | See provider quotes | Result ↗Oct 21, 2026 |
| 5 | zoom/scribe_v1zoom | 6.94% WER | zoom/scribe_v1Leaderboard entry | See provider quotes | Result ↗Oct 21, 2026 |
| 6 | microsoft/azure-speech-06-2026microsoft | 6.95% WER | microsoft/azure-speech-06-2026Leaderboard entry | See provider quotes | Result ↗Oct 21, 2026 |
| 7 | ibm-granite/granite-speech-4.1-2b-naribm-granite | 6.96% WER | ibm-granite/granite-speech-4.1-2b-narLeaderboard entry | See provider quotes | Result ↗Oct 21, 2026 |
| 8 | CohereLabs/cohere-transcribe-03-2026CohereLabs | 7.02% WER | CohereLabs/cohere-transcribe-03-2026Leaderboard entry | See provider quotes | Result ↗Oct 21, 2026 |
| 9 | microsoft/azure-speech-07-2026microsoft | 7.05% WER | microsoft/azure-speech-07-2026Leaderboard entry | See provider quotes | Result ↗Oct 21, 2026 |
| 10 | ibm-granite/granite-speech-4.1-2bibm-granite | 7.06% WER | ibm-granite/granite-speech-4.1-2bLeaderboard entry | See provider quotes | Result ↗Oct 21, 2026 |
| 11 | bosonai/higgs-audio-v3-sttbosonai | 7.19% WER | bosonai/higgs-audio-v3-sttLeaderboard entry | See provider quotes | Result ↗Oct 21, 2026 |
| 12 | ibm-granite/granite-speech-5.0-470m-turboctc-ncibm-granite | 7.31% WER | ibm-granite/granite-speech-5.0-470m-turboctc-ncLeaderboard entry | See provider quotes | Result ↗Oct 21, 2026 |
| 13 | TheStageAI/thewhisper-large-v3-turboTheStageAI | 7.32% WER | TheStageAI/thewhisper-large-v3-turboLeaderboard entry | See provider quotes | Result ↗Oct 21, 2026 |
| 14 | ibm-granite/granite-4.0-1b-speechibm-granite | 7.38% WER | ibm-granite/granite-4.0-1b-speechLeaderboard entry | See provider quotes | Result ↗Oct 21, 2026 |
| 15 | HojoAI/Hojo-ASR-V1HojoAI | 7.54% WER | HojoAI/Hojo-ASR-V1Leaderboard entry | See provider quotes | Result ↗Oct 21, 2026 |
| 16 | ibm-granite/granite-speech-3.3-8bibm-granite | 7.7% WER | ibm-granite/granite-speech-3.3-8bLeaderboard entry | See provider quotes | Result ↗Oct 21, 2026 |
| 17 | ibm-granite/granite-speech-5.0-470m-turboctcibm-granite | 7.71% WER | ibm-granite/granite-speech-5.0-470m-turboctcLeaderboard entry | See provider quotes | Result ↗Oct 21, 2026 |
| 18 | ibm-granite/granite-speech-3.3-2bibm-granite | 7.8% WER | ibm-granite/granite-speech-3.3-2bLeaderboard entry | See provider quotes | Result ↗Oct 21, 2026 |
| 19 | Edge0/ARK-ASR-3BEdge0 | 7.89% WER | Edge0/ARK-ASR-3BLeaderboard entry | See provider quotes | Result ↗Oct 21, 2026 |
| 20 | nvidia/canary-qwen-2.5bnvidia | 7.91% WER | nvidia/canary-qwen-2.5bLeaderboard entry | See provider quotes | Result ↗Oct 21, 2026 |
| 21 | elevenlabs/scribe_v2elevenlabs | 8.19% WER | elevenlabs/scribe_v2Leaderboard entry | See provider quotes | Result ↗Oct 21, 2026 |
| 22 | reson8/resonant-1-flashreson8 | 8.21% WER | reson8/resonant-1-flashLeaderboard entry | See provider quotes | Result ↗Oct 21, 2026 |
| 23 | reson8/resonant-1reson8 | 8.22% WER | reson8/resonant-1Leaderboard entry | See provider quotes | Result ↗Oct 21, 2026 |
| 24 | Qwen/Qwen3-ASR-1.7B-hfQwen | 8.31% WER | Qwen/Qwen3-ASR-1.7B-hfLeaderboard entry | See provider quotes | Result ↗Oct 21, 2026 |
| 25 | OpenMOSS-Team/MOSS-Transcribe-DiarizeOpenMOSS-Team | 8.33% WER | OpenMOSS-Team/MOSS-Transcribe-DiarizeLeaderboard entry | See provider quotes | Result ↗Oct 21, 2026 |
| 26 | Edge0/ARK-ASR-0.6BEdge0 | 8.61% WER | Edge0/ARK-ASR-0.6BLeaderboard entry | See provider quotes | Result ↗Oct 21, 2026 |
| 27 | nvidia/nemotron-speech-streaming-en-0.6bnvidia | 8.84% WER | nvidia/nemotron-speech-streaming-en-0.6bLeaderboard entry | See provider quotes | Result ↗Oct 21, 2026 |
| 28 | OpenAI: GPT Transcribeopenai | 8.95% WER | openai/gpt-transcribeLeaderboard entry | $75.00 in / $0.00 out/ 1M tokens · OpenRouter | Result ↗Oct 21, 2026 |
| 29 | nvidia/parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v2 (fast-gpu-asr)nvidia | 9.02% WER | nvidia/parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v2 (fast-gpu-asr)Leaderboard entry | See provider quotes | Result ↗Oct 21, 2026 |
| 30 | nvidia/parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3 (fast-gpu-asr)nvidia | 9.02% WER | nvidia/parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3 (fast-gpu-asr)Leaderboard entry | See provider quotes | Result ↗Oct 21, 2026 |
| 31 | sprag/symphonysprag | 9.02% WER | sprag/symphonyLeaderboard entry | See provider quotes | Result ↗Oct 21, 2026 |
| 32 | nvidia/parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v2nvidia | 9.09% WER | nvidia/parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v2Leaderboard entry | See provider quotes | Result ↗Oct 21, 2026 |
| 33 | smallestai/pulsesmallestai | 9.11% WER | smallestai/pulseLeaderboard entry | See provider quotes | Result ↗Oct 21, 2026 |
| 34 | microsoft/Phi-4-multimodal-instructmicrosoft | 9.12% WER | microsoft/Phi-4-multimodal-instructLeaderboard entry | See provider quotes | Result ↗Oct 21, 2026 |
| 35 | meta/muse-voice-transcribemeta | 9.2% WER | meta/muse-voice-transcribeLeaderboard entry | See provider quotes | Result ↗Oct 21, 2026 |
| 36 | FermionResearch/Phonon-2FermionResearch | 9.32% WER | FermionResearch/Phonon-2Leaderboard entry | See provider quotes | Result ↗Oct 21, 2026 |
| 37 | Qwen/Qwen3-ASR-0.6B-hfQwen | 9.33% WER | Qwen/Qwen3-ASR-0.6B-hfLeaderboard entry | See provider quotes | Result ↗Oct 21, 2026 |
| 38 | NVIDIA: Parakeet TDT 0.6B v3nvidia | 9.42% WER | nvidia/parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3Leaderboard entry | $25.00 in / $0.00 out/ 1M tokens · OpenRouter | Result ↗Oct 21, 2026 |
| 39 | gladia/solaria-3gladia | 9.89% WER | gladia/solaria-3Leaderboard entry | See provider quotes | Result ↗Oct 21, 2026 |
| 40 | soundsgoodai/Zipformer-cr-ctc-transducer-XL-290M (fast-gpu-asr, transducer_modified_beam_search)soundsgoodai | 10.24% WER | soundsgoodai/Zipformer-cr-ctc-transducer-XL-290M (fast-gpu-asr, transducer_modified_beam_search)Leaderboard entry | See provider quotes | Result ↗Oct 21, 2026 |
| 41 | FunAudioLLM/Fun-ASR-Nano-2512-hfFunAudioLLM | 10.35% WER | FunAudioLLM/Fun-ASR-Nano-2512-hfLeaderboard entry | See provider quotes | Result ↗Oct 21, 2026 |
| 42 | AssemblyAI: Universal-3.5 Proassemblyai | 10.63% WER | assemblyai/universal-3-5-proLeaderboard entry | $83.3333 in / $0.00 out/ 1M tokens · OpenRouter | Result ↗Oct 21, 2026 |
| 43 | Edge0/Audio8-ASR-0.1BEdge0 | 11% WER | Edge0/Audio8-ASR-0.1BLeaderboard entry | See provider quotes | Result ↗Oct 21, 2026 |
| 44 | espnet/owsm_ctc_v4_1Bespnet | 11.1% WER | espnet/owsm_ctc_v4_1BLeaderboard entry | See provider quotes | Result ↗Oct 21, 2026 |
| 45 | soundsgoodai/Zipformer-cr-ctc-transducer-XL-290M (fast-gpu-asr, ctc_greedy_search)soundsgoodai | 11.64% WER | soundsgoodai/Zipformer-cr-ctc-transducer-XL-290M (fast-gpu-asr, ctc_greedy_search)Leaderboard entry | See provider quotes | Result ↗Oct 21, 2026 |
| 46 | abr-ai/niagara-84m-batch.enabr-ai | 12.01% WER | abr-ai/niagara-84m-batch.enLeaderboard entry | See provider quotes | Result ↗Oct 21, 2026 |
| 47 | microsoft/VibeVoice-ASR-HFmicrosoft | 12.02% WER | microsoft/VibeVoice-ASR-HFLeaderboard entry | See provider quotes | Result ↗Oct 21, 2026 |
| 48 | distil-whisper/distil-large-v3.5distil-whisper | 12.09% WER | distil-whisper/distil-large-v3.5Leaderboard entry | See provider quotes | Result ↗Oct 21, 2026 |
| 49 | nvidia/parakeet-ctc-1.1bnvidia | 12.23% WER | nvidia/parakeet-ctc-1.1bLeaderboard entry | See provider quotes | Result ↗Oct 21, 2026 |
| 50 | nvidia/canary-1b-v2nvidia | 13.03% WER | nvidia/canary-1b-v2Leaderboard entry | See provider quotes | Result ↗Oct 21, 2026 |