Granite Speech 4.1 2B NAR

Released
2026-04-29
Last refreshed
2026-04-30
Status
Researched 180d ago
Open sourceCommercial use: permittedMultimodalVision

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Specifications
Released
2026-04-29
Parameters
2B
Specialization
speech-recognition
Openness
Open source
License
Apache 2.0OSI-approvedPermitted
Weights
Available
Code
Unknown
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IBM Granite Speech 4.1 2B NAR (Non-AutoRegressive) is a high-throughput speech recognition model that generates transcriptions in a single forward pass rather than token-by-token. Architecture: 440M CTC speech encoder (16-layer Conformer) + 160M Q-Former projector + 1B bidirectional LLM editor (LoRA-adapted Granite-4.0-1b-base). Achieves ~1820x real-time factor on a single H100 GPU at batch size 128 and 1.29% WER on LibriSpeech Clean. Optimized for latency-sensitive production deployments. Apache 2.0 license.

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MultimodalAudio

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