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    granite-speech-5.0-2b

    by ibm-granite

    IBM's 2B Apache 2.0 speech model for transcription and translation in six languages, with keyword biasing up to 2,000 terms.

    Identifiers
    Model ID
    ibm-granite/granite-speech-5.0-2b
    Feature URI

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    Single-tenant

    Mixpeek has no managed extractor for this model. On a single-tenant deployment you upload the weights and a custom plugin serves them next to the rest of your pipeline.

    Overview

    Granite Speech 5.0 2B is a compact speech-language model from IBM, released on October 20, 2026. It transcribes English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese and Japanese, and translates speech to and from English for those languages, plus English to Italian and Mandarin. IBM trained it on 390,000 hours of public audio corpora, and the Apache 2.0 license allows commercial use.

    Architecture

    An intermediate checkpoint of the granite-4.0-1b-base language model, modality-aligned to speech and trained on audio inputs and text targets. It takes a chat-style prompt with an <|audio|> token and 16 kHz mono audio, and runs natively in Transformers 4.52.1 or later and in vLLM.

    Mixpeek SDK Integration

    # Adapted from the Granite Speech 5.0 2B model card. Audio must be 16 kHz mono.
    # Split recordings longer than about 2 minutes, for example with VAD, before decoding.
    import torch, torchaudio
    from transformers import AutoModelForSpeechSeq2Seq, AutoProcessor
    
    model_name = "ibm-granite/granite-speech-5.0-2b"
    device = "cuda" if torch.cuda.is_available() else "cpu"
    processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained(model_name)
    tokenizer = processor.tokenizer
    model = AutoModelForSpeechSeq2Seq.from_pretrained(
        model_name, device_map=device, torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16
    )
    
    wav, sr = torchaudio.load("segment.wav", normalize=True)
    chat = [{"role": "user", "content": "<|audio|>transcribe the speech with proper punctuation and capitalization."}]
    prompt = tokenizer.apply_chat_template(chat, tokenize=False, add_generation_prompt=True)
    
    inputs = processor(prompt, wav, device=device, return_tensors="pt").to(device)
    outputs = model.generate(**inputs, max_new_tokens=200, do_sample=False, num_beams=1)
    new_tokens = outputs[0, inputs["input_ids"].shape[-1]:].unsqueeze(0)
    print(tokenizer.batch_decode(new_tokens, add_special_tokens=False, skip_special_tokens=True)[0])

    Capabilities

    • Speech-to-text in English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese and Japanese
    • Speech translation to and from English for those languages, plus English to Italian and Mandarin
    • Keyword biasing with a list of up to 2,000 terms, for names and jargon
    • Input language prompting for multilingual transcription
    • Punctuation and capitalization in the transcript

    Use Cases on Mixpeek

    Transcribing call, meeting and video audio before chunking it for search
    Getting product names and acronyms right by passing them as a keyword list
    Translating spoken content to English for one searchable index across languages
    Self-hosted transcription where audio cannot leave your infrastructure

    Benchmarks

    DatasetMetricScoreSource
    VoxPopuliPunctuation error rate23.70https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-speech-5.0-2b
    Earnings-22Punctuation error rate21.64https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-speech-5.0-2b
    CommonVoice EnglishCapitalization F196.96https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-speech-5.0-2b

    Performance

    Input Size16 kHz mono audio, up to about 2 minutes per segment
    GPU LatencyNot published on the model card
    GPU ThroughputBatch dependent
    GPU MemoryModel dependent

    We have not measured it. Scores are IBM's own, from its model card.

    Frequently Asked Questions

    What is Granite Speech 5.0 2B?

    A 2B speech-language model from IBM for transcribing and translating speech. It handles English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese and Japanese, and is released under Apache 2.0.

    How long can the audio be?

    IBM recommends segments of up to about 2 minutes, so split longer recordings first, for example with voice activity detection. Input is 16 kHz mono.

    Can it get product names and jargon right?

    It accepts a keyword list of up to 2,000 terms to bias transcription and translation toward them. IBM reports keyword F1 scores on its model card; we have not measured them ourselves.

    Specification

    Organizationibm-granite
    Retriever-
    Parameters2B
    LicenseApache 2.0
    Downloads/moN/A
    Likes74

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