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          "Hosted is 5 for IBM's own endpoint on Hugging Face, which the card gives for trying the model. It has no stated terms or uptime, and a stricter reading gives 0",
          "Ollama is credited on IBM's own entry in Ollama's registry (ibm/granite5-speech), not a library entry Ollama made",
          "Agent guidance is 10 for the fallback behaviour and the Granite Guardian recommendation. The Granite 4.2 listings got 5 for the general section alone",
          "Version policy would be 10 if the 4.1 card carries a dated note. It wasn't read",
          "Capability is pending. The card cites the Open ASR and FFASR leaderboards, which an independent read would settle",
          "unchecked on 10 November: the blog post, the papers, the ONNX repository, the litert-community conversion, LM Studio's catalogue, and IBM's watsonx model list"
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      "bestFor": "Agents that need to transcribe or translate short recordings in the six supported languages on modest hardware",
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        "Apache 2.0, ungated, with a signed repository",
        "Runs in llama.cpp, Ollama, vLLM and Transformers, each documented",
        "IBM's own GGUF builds, about 3 GB at the precision it recommends",
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        "Updated in the last week, and both questions on the repository answered"
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        "Plain text out: no timestamps, segments or speaker labels",
        "Six languages",
        "Builds below Q8_0 lose accuracy on longer audio, by IBM's own account",
        "No safety results",
        "No cut-off for the training data"
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      "agentNotes": [
        "Split recordings into segments of up to about two minutes of 16 kHz mono audio before sending them",
        "Use the card's prompt for the task word for word, such as `transcribe the speech with proper punctuation and capitalization.`",
        "Use Q8_0. IBM says lower precisions lose accuracy on audio over about a minute",
        "To spell names and jargon right, add a keyword list to the prompt, up to 2,000 terms",
        "With vLLM, serve with `--max-model-len 2048`, as the card does",
        "An unknown prompt falls back to transcription, so check that the output is the task you asked for"
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      "install": "brew install llama.cpp\nllama-cli -st -hf ibm-granite/granite-speech-5.0-2b-GGUF:Q8_0 --audio audio.wav -p \"transcribe the speech with proper punctuation and capitalization.\"\n# or: ollama run ibm/granite5-speech:2b, or vllm serve ibm-granite/granite-speech-5.0-2b --max-model-len 2048",
      "http": "# vLLM and llama-server both serve an OpenAI-compatible chat API. Send 16 kHz mono audio of up to about\n# two minutes as base64 in the message, with one of the card's task prompts as the text"
    },
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      "capability": "https://letme.dev/speech.stt",
      "tool": "https://letme.dev/granite-speech-5-0-2b"
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      "granite-embedding-small-english-r2",
      "granite-guardian",
      "ibm-watson-stt",
      "granite-switch",
      "granite-4-2-30b",
      "granite-4-2-3b",
      "granite-4-2-8b"
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      "builtOn": "An intermediate checkpoint of granite-4.0-1b-base, per the card",
      "params": "2.3B",
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        "llama.cpp",
        "Ollama",
        "vLLM",
        "Transformers"
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          "who": "publisher",
          "precision": "q4_k_m",
          "sizeGB": 2.3,
          "memoryGB": 8,
          "format": "gguf",
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          "note": "1.14 GB with the 1.16 GB audio projector. IBM says precisions below Q8_0 lose accuracy on audio over about a minute"
        },
        {
          "name": "granite-speech-5.0-2b-GGUF Q8_0",
          "url": "https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-speech-5.0-2b-GGUF/blob/main/granite-speech-5.0-2b-Q8_0.gguf",
          "who": "publisher",
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          "sizeGB": 3.12,
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          "format": "gguf",
          "runsOn": [
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          "note": "1.96 GB with the 1.16 GB audio projector. The build IBM recommends, and the one in Ollama's library"
        },
        {
          "name": "granite-speech-5.0-2b (BF16 safetensors)",
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          "who": "publisher",
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          "sizeGB": 5.04,
          "memoryGB": 8,
          "format": "safetensors",
          "runsOn": [
            "vLLM",
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          "note": "Two shards"
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      ],
      "run": "llama-cli -st -hf ibm-granite/granite-speech-5.0-2b-GGUF:Q8_0 --audio audio.wav -p \"transcribe the speech with proper punctuation and capitalization.\"",
      "runBuild": "granite-speech-5.0-2b-GGUF Q8_0",
      "checked": "2026-11-10",
      "minMemoryGB": 8
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      "lab": "IBM (Granite)",
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      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/open-weights/#ibm",
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          "url": "https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-speech-5.0-470m-turboctc",
          "params": "470M, per the name"
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        {
          "name": "granite-speech-4.1-2b",
          "url": "https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-speech-4.1-2b",
          "params": "2B, per the name"
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    "notable": [
      "9,632 downloads in the last 30 days and 81 likes on Hugging Face on 10 November 2026, three weeks after release (https://huggingface.co/api/models/ibm-granite/granite-speech-5.0-2b)",
      "The card documents six ways to run it: Transformers, vLLM, llama.cpp, Ollama, mlx-audio and LiteRT-LM, with code for each (https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-speech-5.0-2b)",
      "IBM recommends Q8_0. The card says lower-bit quantisations lose accuracy on audio longer than about a minute (https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-speech-5.0-2b)",
      "It works on segments of up to about two minutes, so longer recordings have to be split first, with voice activity detection for instance (https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-speech-5.0-2b)",
      "The training data table lists 39 rows of corpora with hours and a source link each, 390,000 hours in all per the card (https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-speech-5.0-2b)",
      "The card says an unfamiliar or malformed prompt is ignored and the model falls back to transcription, and recommends Granite Guardian beside it (https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-speech-5.0-2b)",
      "The repository carries a sigstore signature, model.sig, and an IBM member replied in both of its discussions (https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-speech-5.0-2b/tree/main)"
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