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Open ASR · Gigaspeech-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 | Gigaspeech-Cleaned WER | Configuration | API rate / unit | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 51 | mistralai/Voxtral-Mini-4B-Realtime-2602mistralai | 8.8% WER | mistralai/Voxtral-Mini-4B-Realtime-2602Leaderboard entry | See provider quotes | Result ↗Oct 22, 2026 |
| 52 | ibm-granite/granite-speech-3.3-2bibm-granite | 9.03% WER | ibm-granite/granite-speech-3.3-2bLeaderboard entry | See provider quotes | Result ↗Oct 22, 2026 |
| 53 | nvidia/canary-1b-v2nvidia | 9.12% WER | nvidia/canary-1b-v2Leaderboard entry | See provider quotes | Result ↗Oct 22, 2026 |
| 54 | facebook/omniASR-LLM-7B-v2facebook | 9.2% WER | facebook/omniASR-LLM-7B-v2Leaderboard entry | See provider quotes | Result ↗Oct 22, 2026 |
| 55 | espnet/owsm_ctc_v4_1Bespnet | 9.29% WER | espnet/owsm_ctc_v4_1BLeaderboard entry | See provider quotes | Result ↗Oct 22, 2026 |
| 56 | soundsgoodai/Zipformer-cr-ctc-transducer-XL-290M (fast-gpu-asr, ctc_greedy_search)soundsgoodai | 9.52% WER | soundsgoodai/Zipformer-cr-ctc-transducer-XL-290M (fast-gpu-asr, ctc_greedy_search)Leaderboard entry | See provider quotes | Result ↗Oct 22, 2026 |
| 57 | nvidia/nemotron-3.5-asr-streaming-0.6bnvidia | 9.86% WER | nvidia/nemotron-3.5-asr-streaming-0.6bLeaderboard entry | See provider quotes | Result ↗Oct 22, 2026 |
| 58 | abr-ai/niagara-84m-batch.enabr-ai | 10.41% WER | abr-ai/niagara-84m-batch.enLeaderboard entry | See provider quotes | Result ↗Oct 22, 2026 |
| 59 | abr-ai/niagara-38m-batch.enabr-ai | 11.38% WER | abr-ai/niagara-38m-batch.enLeaderboard entry | See provider quotes | Result ↗Oct 22, 2026 |
| 60 | google/gemma-4-E4B-itgoogle | 11.74% WER | google/gemma-4-E4B-itLeaderboard entry | See provider quotes | Result ↗Oct 22, 2026 |
| 61 | abr-ai/niagara-19m-batch.enabr-ai | 12.72% WER | abr-ai/niagara-19m-batch.enLeaderboard entry | See provider quotes | Result ↗Oct 22, 2026 |
| 62 | facebook/omniASR-CTC-7B-v2facebook | 12.95% WER | facebook/omniASR-CTC-7B-v2Leaderboard entry | See provider quotes | Result ↗Oct 22, 2026 |
| 63 | google/gemma-4-E2B-itgoogle | 14.03% WER | google/gemma-4-E2B-itLeaderboard entry | See provider quotes | Result ↗Oct 22, 2026 |
| 64 | abr-ai/niagara-9m-batch.enabr-ai | 14.97% WER | abr-ai/niagara-9m-batch.enLeaderboard entry | See provider quotes | Result ↗Oct 22, 2026 |
| 65 | google/gemma-4-12B-itgoogle | 23.41% WER | google/gemma-4-12B-itLeaderboard entry | See provider quotes | Result ↗Oct 22, 2026 |