Granite Speech 5.0 2B 5.0 2B

IBM · released Oct 22, 2026

Open-weight (permissive)speechtext

Openness taxonomy

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Weights availability: Available under Apache 2.0
Licence: Apache 2.0
Licence category: permissive
Commercial use allowed: Yes
Derivatives allowed: Yes
Redistribution allowed: Yes
Field-of-use restrictions: unknown
Training code availability: unknown
Inference code availability: unknown
Architecture disclosure: unknown
Training data disclosure: unknown

openness confidence

Source identifies the model as Apache 2.0

Deployability

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Self-hosting: unknown
On-premise: unknown
Edge deployability: unknown
API availability: unknown
Regions available: unknown

Benchmarks

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Open ASR Leaderboard average English WER 5.68% (#2)

National-security pathway & evidence

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Impact: mediumConfidence: mediumNat-sec: indirectindependent reporting

Domains: tech_sovereignty

Pathway: Apache 2.0 availability could enable organisations to deploy speech transcription and translation without relying solely on a hosted provider.

Evidence limitations: Single press report; the leaderboard result and licence details are not independently corroborated in the supplied text.

IBM AI Releases Granite Speech 5.0 2B for Multilingual Transcription and Translation

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