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Open ASR · Voxpopuli-AA-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 | Voxpopuli-AA-Cleaned WER | Configuration | API rate / unit | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 51 | nvidia/canary-1b-v2nvidia | 4.39% WER | nvidia/canary-1b-v2Leaderboard entry | See provider quotes | Result ↗Oct 22, 2026 |
| 52 | ibm-granite/granite-4.0-1b-speechibm-granite | 4.41% WER | ibm-granite/granite-4.0-1b-speechLeaderboard entry | See provider quotes | Result ↗Oct 22, 2026 |
| 53 | facebook/omniASR-CTC-7B-v2facebook | 4.43% WER | facebook/omniASR-CTC-7B-v2Leaderboard entry | See provider quotes | Result ↗Oct 22, 2026 |
| 54 | ibm-granite/granite-speech-3.3-2bibm-granite | 4.52% WER | ibm-granite/granite-speech-3.3-2bLeaderboard entry | See provider quotes | Result ↗Oct 22, 2026 |
| 55 | whisper-large-v3openai | 4.53% WER | openai/whisper-large-v3Leaderboard entry | $7.50 in / $0.00 out/ 1M tokens · OpenRouter | Result ↗Oct 22, 2026 |
| 56 | soundsgoodai/Zipformer-cr-ctc-transducer-XL-290M (fast-gpu-asr, ctc_greedy_search)soundsgoodai | 4.53% WER | soundsgoodai/Zipformer-cr-ctc-transducer-XL-290M (fast-gpu-asr, ctc_greedy_search)Leaderboard entry | See provider quotes | Result ↗Oct 22, 2026 |
| 57 | ibm-granite/granite-speech-3.3-8bibm-granite | 4.54% WER | ibm-granite/granite-speech-3.3-8bLeaderboard entry | See provider quotes | Result ↗Oct 22, 2026 |
| 58 | ibm-granite/granite-speech-5.0-470m-turboctc-ncibm-granite | 4.67% WER | ibm-granite/granite-speech-5.0-470m-turboctc-ncLeaderboard entry | See provider quotes | Result ↗Oct 22, 2026 |
| 59 | ibm-granite/granite-speech-5.0-470m-turboctcibm-granite | 4.9% WER | ibm-granite/granite-speech-5.0-470m-turboctcLeaderboard entry | See provider quotes | Result ↗Oct 22, 2026 |
| 60 | abr-ai/niagara-38m-batch.enabr-ai | 5.16% WER | abr-ai/niagara-38m-batch.enLeaderboard entry | See provider quotes | Result ↗Oct 22, 2026 |
| 61 | CohereLabs/cohere-transcribe-03-2026CohereLabs | 5.38% WER | CohereLabs/cohere-transcribe-03-2026Leaderboard entry | See provider quotes | Result ↗Oct 22, 2026 |
| 62 | google/gemma-4-E2B-itgoogle | 5.66% WER | google/gemma-4-E2B-itLeaderboard entry | See provider quotes | Result ↗Oct 22, 2026 |
| 63 | abr-ai/niagara-19m-batch.enabr-ai | 5.73% WER | abr-ai/niagara-19m-batch.enLeaderboard entry | See provider quotes | Result ↗Oct 22, 2026 |
| 64 | whisper-large-v3-turboopenai | 7.02% WER | openai/whisper-large-v3-turboLeaderboard entry | $3.33 in / $0.00 out/ 1M tokens · OpenRouter | Result ↗Oct 22, 2026 |
| 65 | abr-ai/niagara-9m-batch.enabr-ai | 7.33% WER | abr-ai/niagara-9m-batch.enLeaderboard entry | See provider quotes | Result ↗Oct 22, 2026 |