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Granite Speech 5.0
IBM's free, open speech-recognition model (October 2026). It turns speech in English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese or Japanese into text and translates to and from English. Apache 2.0, so commercial use is fine; runs on a GPU, a Mac or on device.
Go to Granite Speech 5.0’s websiteFree to try?Yes
Can I sell what I make?Yes
Open or closedFully open
Skill neededTechnical
The facts, with sources
- Open or closed
- Fully openWeights and code downloadable under a standard open licencesource · checked 7 Nov 2026 · checked on the maker's own page
- Licence
- Apache 2.0 (Permissive (e.g. Apache 2.0, MIT))source · checked 7 Nov 2026 · checked on the maker's own page
- Can I sell what I make?
- YesApache 2.0.source · checked 7 Nov 2026 · checked on the maker's own page
- Cost
- Free option: Free to download; you pay for your own hardwarePlans below.
- How you use it
- On your own computerTransformers, vLLM, llama.cpp, Ollama; best with clips of 2 minutes or less.source · checked 7 Nov 2026 · checked on the maker's own page
- Skill needed
- Technicalsource · checked 7 Nov 2026 · checked on the maker's own page
- Made by
- IBM (US)source · checked 7 Nov 2026 · checked, but the page was unclear or partial
- Status
- AvailableDate the weights appeared on Hugging Face.source · checked 7 Nov 2026 · checked, but the page was unclear or partial
What you can make with it
- A voice or speech, text from a recording (main use)
- A voice or speech, a written translation of a recording
audio to text
source · checked 7 Nov 2026 · checked on the maker's own page
Plans and prices
No paid plans listed.
source · checked 7 Nov 2026 · checked on the maker's own page
Rights and safety
- Limits
- max audio seconds: 120; note: Card advises splitting audio into segments of about 2 minutes.source · checked 7 Nov 2026 · checked on the maker's own page
Related
Where you can run it
Other options for “A voice or speech, text from a recording”
Adobe Podcast (Enhance Speech), Adobe Premiere, AssemblyAI, Async (formerly Podcastle), AudioShake, Auphonic, Azure AI Speech, CAMB.AI, Cartesia, Cleanvoice AI, Clipchamp, Deepgram, Descript, Distil-Whisper, Dubverse, ElevenLabs, Filmora, Gling, Happy Scribe, Hugging Face, Kapwing, Krisp, LFM3-Audio, MacWhisper
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