{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "granite-speech-5-0-2b", "name": "Granite Speech 5.0 2B", "vendor": "IBM", "vendorUrl": "https://www.ibm.com/granite", "kind": "weights", "category": "speech-to-text", "summary": "Granite Speech 5.0 2B is IBM's open-weight speech model of 2.3B parameters for transcription in six languages and speech translation to and from English, with keyword lists. Apache 2.0, with IBM's own GGUF builds from about 2 GB.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/granite-speech-5-0-2b", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/granite-speech-5-0-2b.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/granite-speech-5-0-2b.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/granite-speech-5-0-2b.json", "dns": "granite-speech-5-0-2b.grade.anchorterminal.com", "repo": "https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-speech-5.0-2b", "license": "Apache-2.0", "transports": [], "packages": [ { "registry": "huggingface", "name": "ibm-granite/granite-speech-5.0-2b" }, { "registry": "huggingface", "name": "ibm-granite/granite-speech-5.0-2b-GGUF" }, { "registry": "ollama", "name": "ibm/granite5-speech" } ], "auth": "none", "authNotes": "The weights download from Hugging Face with no account, token or terms to accept. The safetensors and GGUF repositories are not gated (checked 2026-11-10).", "pricing": "free", "pricingNotes": "Free to download and use under Apache 2.0. Running it yourself costs little: 3.1 GB at Q8_0 with its audio projector, which IBM recommends, or 5.0 GB in BF16. IBM also runs a trial endpoint on Hugging Face that takes a Hugging Face token (checked 2026-11-10).", "priceSummary": "Free", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "Weights you download and run yourself, so there is nothing to pay per call and no payment protocol (checked 2026-11-10).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-11-10" }, "docsUrl": "https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-speech-5.0-2b", "capabilities": [ "speech.stt", "speech.batch", "speech.languages", "speech.translation", "model.open-weights" ], "tags": [ "open-weights", "model", "speech-to-text", "asr", "speech-translation", "multilingual", "keyword-biasing", "small", "apache-2.0", "safetensors", "gguf", "signed", "self-hosted" ], "lastRelease": "2026-11-06", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 61, "grade": "C", "agentReady": false, "rank": 0, "ranked": false, "notRankedWhy": "An open-weight model, graded by the open-weight checklist and ranked among open-weight models, not against tools", "rankOf": 1518, "categoryRank": 19, "methodology": "0.7", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "interface": 55, "reach": 95, "risk": 70, "upkeep": 92 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "low", "date": "2026-11-10" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "A small, well-kept speech model with a clean licence: six languages, translation, keyword lists, IBM's own GGUF and an Ollama entry, a signed repository and training data listed corpus by corpus. It handles about two minutes of audio at a time and returns plain text, with no timestamps or speakers, and publishes no safety results.", "bestFor": "Agents that need to transcribe or translate short recordings in the six supported languages on modest hardware", "strengths": [ "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", "Training data listed with hours and sources", "Keyword lists of up to 2,000 terms", "Updated in the last week, and both questions on the repository answered" ], "weaknesses": [ "About two minutes of audio per request, so long recordings must be split", "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" ], "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" ], "metrics": { "kind": "local", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "low", "grade": "C", "methodology": "0.7", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 61 } ], "editorialScores": { "interface": 55, "reach": 95, "risk": 70, "upkeep": 92 }, "provenanceScore": 88, "checked": { "categories": { "interface": "2026-11-10", "reach": "2026-11-10", "risk": "2026-11-10", "upkeep": "2026-11-10" }, "last": "2026-11-10", "oldest": "2026-11-10", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "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" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/speech.stt", "tool": "https://letme.dev/granite-speech-5-0-2b" }, "sameCompany": [ "granite-embedding-small-english-r2", "granite-guardian", "ibm-watson-stt", "granite-switch", "granite-4-2-30b", "granite-4-2-3b", "granite-4-2-8b" ], "weights": { "trainedBy": "IBM", "builtOn": "An intermediate checkpoint of granite-4.0-1b-base, per the card", "params": "2.3B", "goodFor": "Transcribing and translating short recordings in six languages on a laptop, with a keyword list for names and jargon.", "runtimes": [ "llama.cpp", "Ollama", "vLLM", "Transformers" ], "builds": [ { "name": "granite-speech-5.0-2b-GGUF Q4_K_M", "url": "https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-speech-5.0-2b-GGUF/blob/main/granite-speech-5.0-2b-Q4_K_M.gguf", "who": "publisher", "precision": "q4_k_m", "sizeGB": 2.3, "memoryGB": 8, "format": "gguf", "runsOn": [ "llama.cpp" ], "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", "precision": "q8_0", "sizeGB": 3.12, "memoryGB": 8, "format": "gguf", "runsOn": [ "llama.cpp", "Ollama" ], "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)", "url": "https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-speech-5.0-2b/tree/main", "who": "publisher", "precision": "bf16", "sizeGB": 5.04, "memoryGB": 8, "format": "safetensors", "runsOn": [ "vLLM", "Transformers" ], "note": "Two shards" } ], "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 }, "family": { "lab": "IBM (Granite)", "family": "Granite Speech", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/open-weights/#ibm", "others": [ { "name": "granite-speech-5.0-470m-turboctc", "url": "https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-speech-5.0-470m-turboctc", "params": "470M, per the name" }, { "name": "granite-speech-4.1-2b", "url": "https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-speech-4.1-2b", "params": "2B, per the name" } ], "olderCount": 64 }, "area": "voice", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "International Business Machines Corporation (per IBM's naming guidance, as read for granite-guardian)", "domain": "ibm.com", "domainRegistered": "1986-03-19", "endpointOnVendorDomain": null, "terms": "", "privacy": "", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-speech-5.0-2b/commits/main", "securityTxt": "valid", "checked": "2026-11-10", "notes": [ "IBM's legal entity, domain and security.txt are carried from our Granite 4.2 listings.", "Nothing is hosted under this listing, so Apache 2.0 stands in for terms of service and no privacy policy is scored.", "The changelog is the commit history, 28 commits from 7 October to 6 November 2026.", "The card gives 20 October 2026 as the release date." ], "score": 88 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/granite-speech-5-0-2b.json" }, "answer": "Granite Speech 5.0 2B scores 61 (C) on agent readiness against Ming-3.0-audio-flash's 42.5 (E), and leads in 3 of 4 scored categories. Ming-3.0-audio-flash leads on agent interface.", "b": { "slug": "ming-3-0-audio-flash", "name": "Ming-3.0-audio-flash", "vendor": "inclusionAI (Ant Group)", "vendorUrl": "https://www.inclusion-ai.org", "kind": "weights", "category": "speech-to-text", "summary": "Ming-3.0-audio-flash is inclusionAI's open-weight audio-language model for Chinese and English. It takes audio with text instructions and returns transcripts, answers about the audio, or spoken replies, 126B parameters with 6.5B active, under MIT.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/ming-3-0-audio-flash", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/ming-3-0-audio-flash.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/ming-3-0-audio-flash.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/ming-3-0-audio-flash.json", "dns": "ming-3-0-audio-flash.grade.anchorterminal.com", "repo": "https://huggingface.co/inclusionAI/Ming-3.0-audio-flash", "license": "MIT", "transports": [], "packages": [ { "registry": "huggingface", "name": "inclusionAI/Ming-3.0-audio-flash" } ], "auth": "none", "authNotes": "The weights download from Hugging Face with no account, token or terms to accept. The repository isn't gated (checked 2026-10-21). ModelScope carries the same model under inclusionAI's organisation.", "pricing": "free", "pricingNotes": "Free to download and use, commercial use included, under MIT. inclusionAI sells no per-call access to these weights. Running them costs the hardware, 259.4 GB of BF16 files and eight 80 GB GPUs in inclusionAI's 128K serving profile (checked 2026-10-21).", "priceSummary": "Free", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "Weights you download and run yourself, so there is nothing to pay per call and no payment protocol (checked 2026-10-21).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-21" }, "docsUrl": "https://github.com/inclusionAI/Ming-3.0-audio-flash", "capabilities": [ "speech.stt", "speech.batch", "speech.languages", "voice.speech-to-speech", "model.open-weights" ], "tags": [ "open-weights", "speech-to-text", "audio-understanding", "speech-to-speech", "voice-cloning", "moe", "mit", "safetensors", "chinese", "english", "self-hosted", "new" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-20", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 42.5, "grade": "E", "agentReady": false, "rank": 0, "ranked": false, "notRankedWhy": "An open-weight model, graded by the open-weight checklist and ranked among open-weight models, not against tools", "rankOf": 1518, "categoryRank": 32, "methodology": "0.7", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "interface": 65, "reach": 25, "risk": 50, "upkeep": 49 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "low", "date": "2026-10-21" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Ming-3.0-audio-flash is a cousin for Chinese and English transcription, questions about long audio and spoken replies in built-in or cloned voices, under MIT. It needs about 260 GB on a multi-GPU server, with inclusionAI's own runtime branches or Transformers remote code. The main risks are running repository code to load it and no published safety results.", "bestFor": "Teams with a multi-GPU server who want Chinese and English transcription, audio understanding and spoken replies from one MIT model", "strengths": [ "MIT with no use policy, downloadable with no account or gate", "Transcription, audio question answering and spoken replies from one model, with 484 built-in voices and voice cloning", "Request and response format documented for its vLLM-Omni and SGLang servers, with example clients and streamed audio", "131,072-token context with no position scaling and thinking switched on per request", "Repository, examples and runtime branch updated daily up to 20 October 2026" ], "weaknesses": [ "259.3 GB of BF16 files and no quantised build, so it needs a multi-GPU server and doesn't fit 128 GB", "No named runtime runs it from released code, it needs inclusionAI's fork branches or trust_remote_code", "No hosted provider, so an agent without the hardware can't call it", "No safety results, training data, limitations or knowledge cut-off published", "No timestamps or JSON transcript output, and where reasoning text returns isn't documented" ], "agentNotes": [ "Start it with inclusionAI's recipe, `hf download inclusionAI/Ming-3.0-audio-flash --local-dir inclusionAI/Ming-3.0-audio-flash \u0026\u0026 export MODEL_PATH=\"$PWD/inclusionAI/Ming-3.0-audio-flash\" \u0026\u0026 pip install -r requirements-vllm-omni.txt \u0026\u0026 MING_OUTPUT_MODE=asr ./scripts/serve_vllm_omni.sh \"$MODEL_PATH\"`, run from a clone of github.com/inclusionAI/Ming-3.0-audio-flash", "The 128K profile uses tensor parallelism over eight 80 GB H800 GPUs, the SGLang profile four and SGLang-Omni's cookbook two. It doesn't fit the 107.4 GB reference machine", "Use `MING_OUTPUT_MODE=asr` with the validated prompt and greedy decoding for transcripts, and split the language label from the text at the tab", "Use `MING_OUTPUT_MODE=text` for audio questions and the Talker profile with `modalities=[\"text\", \"audio\"]` for spoken replies", "Send audio as a base64 data URL in an `audio_url` item for vLLM-Omni, or as `input_audio` for SGLang", "Pick a voice with `audio.voice` and an id, or clone one with `ref_audio` and its exact `prompt_text`, never both", "Turn thinking on per request with `chat_template_kwargs` `{\"enable_thinking\": true}`, it's off by default and the reasoning comes back in think tags", "Tool calls follow the template's `\u003ctool_call\u003e` with `\u003carg_key\u003e` and `\u003carg_value\u003e` pairs, and no parser is named, so parse them yourself", "Review the repository's Python and the talker/ code, .pyc files included, before loading with trust_remote_code" ], "metrics": { "kind": "local", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 4, "avgRating": 2.3, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "low", "grade": "E", "methodology": "0.7", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 42.5 } ], "editorialScores": { "interface": 65, "reach": 25, "risk": 50, "upkeep": 49 }, "provenanceScore": 61, "checked": { "categories": { "interface": "2026-10-21", "reach": "2026-10-21", "risk": "2026-10-21", "upkeep": "2026-10-21" }, "last": "2026-10-21", "oldest": "2026-10-21", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "install": "# inclusionAI's recipe, from github.com/inclusionAI/Ming-3.0-audio-flash (eight 80 GB GPUs for 128K)\nhf download inclusionAI/Ming-3.0-audio-flash --local-dir inclusionAI/Ming-3.0-audio-flash\nexport MODEL_PATH=\"$PWD/inclusionAI/Ming-3.0-audio-flash\"\npip install -r requirements-vllm-omni.txt\nMING_OUTPUT_MODE=asr ./scripts/serve_vllm_omni.sh \"$MODEL_PATH\"", "http": "python examples/vllm_omni_audio_chat.py examples/audio/introduce_ant_group.wav \\\n --task asr \\\n --prompt 'Please recognize the language of this speech and transcribe it, placing a `\\t` between the identified language and the transcribe.' \\\n --max-tokens 256 --no-repeat-ngram-size 10" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/speech.stt", "tool": "https://letme.dev/ming-3-0-audio-flash" }, "sameCompany": [ "ming-3-0-asr-tiny", "ming-3-0-audio-tiny", "ming-3-0-tts-tiny", "lbs-27b", "ling-3-0-tiny", "ling-3-1-flash-1019" ], "weights": { "trainedBy": "inclusionAI (Ant Group)", "params": "126B", "active": "6.5B", "context": 131072, "goodFor": "Audio-language model for Chinese and English: speech to text, questions about audio and spoken replies.", "runtimes": [], "builds": [ { "name": "Ming-3.0-audio-flash", "url": "https://huggingface.co/inclusionAI/Ming-3.0-audio-flash", "who": "publisher", "precision": "bf16", "sizeGB": 259.3, "memoryGB": 512, "format": "safetensors", "note": "Main checkpoint 256.4 GB plus the Talker and VAE 3.0 GB" } ], "run": "hf download inclusionAI/Ming-3.0-audio-flash --local-dir inclusionAI/Ming-3.0-audio-flash \u0026\u0026 export MODEL_PATH=\"$PWD/inclusionAI/Ming-3.0-audio-flash\" \u0026\u0026 pip install -r requirements-vllm-omni.txt \u0026\u0026 MING_OUTPUT_MODE=asr ./scripts/serve_vllm_omni.sh \"$MODEL_PATH\"", "runBuild": "Ming-3.0-audio-flash", "checked": "2026-10-21", "minMemoryGB": 512 }, "family": { "lab": "inclusionAI (Ant Group)", "family": "Ming 3.0", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/open-weights/#inclusionai", "others": [ { "name": "Ming-3.0-tts-0.5B", "url": "https://huggingface.co/inclusionAI/Ming-3.0-tts-0.5B", "params": "0.5B (dense)", "listing": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/ming-3-0-tts-0-5b" }, { "name": "Ming-3.0-tts-tiny", "url": "https://huggingface.co/inclusionAI/Ming-3.0-tts-tiny", "params": "7.9B total, about 1.3B active (backbone)", "listing": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/ming-3-0-tts-tiny" }, { "name": "Ming-3.0-audio-tiny", "url": "https://huggingface.co/inclusionAI/Ming-3.0-audio-tiny", "params": "9.3B total, 2.7B active", "listing": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/ming-3-0-audio-tiny" }, { "name": "Ming-3.0-asr-tiny", "url": "https://huggingface.co/inclusionAI/Ming-3.0-asr-tiny", "params": "not stated on the card (Hub metadata counts 8,865,800,992 in the files)", "listing": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/ming-3-0-asr-tiny" } ], "olderCount": 54 }, "alsoIn": [ "voice-agents" ], "area": "voice", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "inclusionAI, Ant Group (named in the inclusion-ai.org footer; no registered company named)", "domain": "inclusion-ai.org", "domainRegistered": "2025-04-03", "endpointOnVendorDomain": null, "terms": "", "privacy": "", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://github.com/inclusionAI/Ming-3.0-audio-flash/commits/main", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-21", "notes": [ "inclusion-ai.org (inclusionai.github.io redirects there) describes inclusionAI as founded by Ant Group and links its Hugging Face and GitHub organisations. Its footer reads © 2026 inclusionAI, Ant Group. RDAP gives the domain's registration as 3 April 2025.", "Nothing is hosted, so the MIT licence stands in for terms of service and no privacy policy is scored.", "The changelog is the GitHub repository's commit history, whose messages mostly say what changed (a vLLM-Omni fix branch, voice selection, deployment profiles). The Hugging Face history mixes these with card layout edits.", "inclusion-ai.org/.well-known/security.txt answers with the site's 404 page, so there is none.", "Ant Group runs a company-wide security response centre, AntSRC (https://security.alipay.com/, read on 21 October 2026). Nothing on inclusionAI's card or sites links it." ], "score": 61 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/ming-3-0-audio-flash.json", "live": { "slug": "ming-3-0-audio-flash", "securityTxt": { "url": "https://inclusion-ai.org/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "unknown", "checkedAt": "2026-11-10T16:09:19.556283743Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "inclusion-ai.org", "registered": "2025-04-03", "source": "https://rdap.publicinterestregistry.org/rdap/domain/inclusion-ai.org", "checkedAt": "2026-11-08T15:01:29.637357411Z" }, "updatedAt": "2026-11-10T16:09:19.556283743Z" } }, "edges": [ { "by": 70, "category": "reach", "leads": "granite-speech-5-0-2b", "name": "Reach", "reasons": { "a": "Memory 30, the smallest build listed that keeps 4 bits is IBM's Q4_K_M GGUF, 1.14 GB with the 1.16 GB audio projector, and 2.30 GB × 1.2 = 2.8 GB, within 16 GB. IBM recommends Q8_0, 3.12 GB with the projector. Runtimes 20, Released Transformers 5.22.2 and vLLM 0.33.0 have the granite_speech model, llama.cpp b12242 has its converter and audio front end, and Ollama carries it as ibm/granite5-speech, which the card says was tested with v0.40.15. Builds 15, IBM publishes GGUF builds at fourteen quantised precisions, from Q2_K to Q8_0, with the audio projector. Terms 15, Apache 2.0 in the metadata and on the card, with nothing added. Download 10, the Hub API reports gated false for both repositories on 10 November 2026, so the files download with no account and nothing to accept. Hosted 5, IBM runs a Hugging Face Inference Endpoint that serves this model through an OpenAI-compatible API, with the address and code on the card. 30 + 20 + 15 + 15 + 10 + 5 = 95.", "b": "Memory earns 0, because the only build is inclusionAI's BF16 release at 259.3 GB, and a fifth on top is 311.2 GB, above the 256 GB band. Runtimes earn 0, since no named runtime runs the audio model from its own released code. Transformers needs the repository's remote code, vLLM and SGLang need inclusionAI's fork branches, vLLM-Omni and SGLang-Omni aren't on the list, and llama.cpp, Ollama and LM Studio don't have it. Builds earn 0 with BF16 only. Terms earn 15 for MIT with nothing added. Download earns 10, since the repository isn't gated. Hosted earns 0, with no inference provider on its Hugging Face page, none on OpenRouter and no inclusionAI API for it." }, "scores": { "a": 95, "b": 25 } }, { "by": 43, "category": "upkeep", "leads": "granite-speech-5-0-2b", "name": "Documentation and upkeep", "reasons": { "a": "Model card 17, Intended use, limitations, the architecture, the size, the 16K positions and two-minute segments, and the languages are on the card. Training data 20, the data is listed with sources and sizes: a 39-row table giving each corpus, its task, its hours and a link to where it comes from, with the synthetic sets described. Last change 20, the last commit, on 6 November 2026, updated the card, 4 days before this check. Responsiveness 20, Both discussions that aren't pull requests (21 and 28 October 2026) have a reply from an ibm-granite member. Version policy 5, granite-speech-4.1-2b stays in its own repository and 5.0 came out in a new one, which names its predecessor and gives a release date. File health 10, Config, template and card agree on the architecture and the 16K positions. 17 + 20 + 20 + 20 + 5 + 10 = 92.", "b": "The model card earns 14, covering five of the seven points and missing limitations and a knowledge cut-off. Training data earns 0, with nothing described. Last change earns 20, with the voice interface, examples and inclusionAI's runtime branch all changed between 18 and 20 October 2026. Responsiveness earns 0, because nobody has asked a question yet in the Hugging Face discussions and GitHub issues couldn't be counted. Version policy earns 5 for a first release in its own repository. File health earns 10, with config, tokenizer, template and card in agreement and no broken-file report waiting." }, "scores": { "a": 92, "b": 49 } }, { "by": 20, "category": "risk", "leads": "granite-speech-5-0-2b", "name": "Risk", "reasons": { "a": "File safety 25, safetensors and GGUF only, no .bin, .pt or .pth files and no Python in either repository. Provenance 15, the files sit in the ibm-granite organisation, which IBM's Granite docs link to (10). Safety evaluation 0, no safety results on the card. Agent guidance 10, the card says what the model does with a prompt it doesn't know: it ignores an unfamiliar or malformed prompt and transcribes, which it says limits how audio can steer the system. Licence risk 15, Apache 2.0 with no use policy, no threshold and no right to change the terms. Security programme 5, www.ibm.com/.well-known/security.txt names IBM PSIRT, read for the Granite 4.2 3B listing on 4 November 2026 (5). 25 + 15 + 0 + 10 + 15 + 5 = 70.", "b": "File safety earns 15, safetensors weights with no pickle files, less 10 because loading needs trust_remote_code and speech output imports Python from the model directory, which also ships compiled .pyc files. Provenance earns 15, files in inclusionAI's own organisation, linked from its site, and a checksum on every file. Safety evaluation earns 0, with none published. Agent guidance earns 0, since the only caution is about reviewing code before loading it. Licence risk keeps 15 under plain MIT. The security programme earns 5 for Ant Group's AntSRC reporting centre, read as a company-wide route the way Google's was for Gemma, while advisories handled in public weren't found or couldn't be checked on GitHub." }, "scores": { "a": 70, "b": 50 } }, { "by": 10, "category": "interface", "leads": "ming-3-0-audio-flash", "name": "Agent interface", "reasons": { "a": "Chat template 20, chat_template.jinja in the repository (193 characters). Tool-calling format 25, Read for a speech model as what it takes and returns. Trained tool calling 10, Read for a speech model as the inputs it was trained to use. Structured output 0, Read for a speech model as typed outputs. Reasoning control 0, A speech model with no reasoning. Context 0, the language model is extended to 16K positions, per the card and config.json (16,384), below the 32K band, and the card says to send audio in segments of about two minutes. 20 + 25 + 10 + 0 + 0 + 0 = 55.", "b": "This model has a chat interface with function calls as well as speech, so the tool-calling line is read for its tool calls, as for Ming-3.0-audio-tiny, and structured output for what it returns. The chat template earns 20, a Jinja file in the repository. The tool-calling format earns 10, because function tools are declared and returned only as the template says, with no parser named, though inclusionAI's README documents the audio requests and replies for its vLLM-Omni and SGLang servers. Trained tool calling earns 20 from inclusionAI's own tool-calling sample and a template that renders several calls in one turn. Structured output earns 5, since the transcript form and audio format are documented but no timestamps or JSON output are. Reasoning control earns 0, because thinking switches per request but where its text comes back isn't documented. Context earns 10 for 131,072 tokens with no scaling." }, "scores": { "a": 55, "b": 65 } } ], "facts": [ { "a": "Open-weight model", "b": "Open-weight model", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "IBM", "b": "inclusionAI (Ant Group)", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "no (local only)", "b": "no (local only)", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "", "b": "", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "None", "b": "None", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Free", "b": "Free", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "Apache-2.0", "b": "MIT", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-11-06", "b": "2026-10-20", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "no document linked", "b": "no document linked", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "no document linked", "b": "no document linked", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "none", "b": "2.3/5 (4)", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Granite Speech 5.0 2B scores 61 (C) on agent readiness against Ming-3.0-audio-flash's 42.5 (E), and leads in 3 of 4 scored categories. 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Realtime 2602", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ming-3-0-audio-flash-vs-voxtral-mini-4b-realtime-2602" } ], "panel": null, "scores": [ { "key": "capability", "name": "Capability", "pending": true, "weight": 35 }, { "by": 70, "edge": "granite-speech-5-0-2b", "granite-speech-5-0-2b": 95, "key": "reach", "ming-3-0-audio-flash": 25, "name": "Reach", "weight": 25 }, { "by": 20, "edge": "granite-speech-5-0-2b", "granite-speech-5-0-2b": 70, "key": "risk", "ming-3-0-audio-flash": 50, "name": "Risk", "weight": 20 }, { "by": 10, "edge": "ming-3-0-audio-flash", "granite-speech-5-0-2b": 55, "key": "interface", "ming-3-0-audio-flash": 65, "name": "Agent interface", "weight": 10 }, { "by": 43, "edge": "granite-speech-5-0-2b", "granite-speech-5-0-2b": 92, "key": "upkeep", "ming-3-0-audio-flash": 49, "name": "Documentation and upkeep", "weight": 10 } ], "summary": "Granite Speech 5.0 2B scores 61 (C) on agent readiness against Ming-3.0-audio-flash's 42.5 (E), and leads in 3 of 4 scored 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The main risks are running repository code to load it and no published safety results." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/granite-speech-5-0-2b-vs-ming-3-0-audio-flash", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/granite-speech-5-0-2b-vs-ming-3-0-audio-flash.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/granite-speech-5-0-2b-vs-ming-3-0-audio-flash.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/granite-speech-5-0-2b-vs-ming-3-0-audio-flash.min.md" }, "markdown": "Granite Speech 5.0 2B scores 61 (C) on agent readiness against Ming-3.0-audio-flash's 42.5 (E), and leads in 3 of 4 scored categories. Ming-3.0-audio-flash leads on agent interface. Both do speech-to-text.\n\n- Granite Speech 5.0 2B: grade C, 61/100, rank #67 of 160 open-weight models. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/granite-speech-5-0-2b.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/granite-speech-5-0-2b.json\n- Ming-3.0-audio-flash: grade E, 42.5/100, rank #157 of 160 open-weight models. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/ming-3-0-audio-flash.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/ming-3-0-audio-flash.json\n- Best speech-to-text APIs for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/speech-to-text/index.md\n- All 386 stt comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/speech-to-text/index.md\n- Best conversational voice-agent APIs: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/voice-agents/index.md\n- All 581 voice agents comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/voice-agents/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Granite Speech 5.0 2B (C)\n\nGood for: Agents that need to transcribe or translate short recordings in the six supported languages on modest hardware\n\nAhead on:\n- Reach, 95 against 25\n- Risk, 70 against 50\n- Documentation and upkeep, 92 against 49\n\nWatch for: About two minutes of audio per request, so long recordings must be split\n\n### Ming-3.0-audio-flash (E)\n\nGood for: Teams with a multi-GPU server who want Chinese and English transcription, audio understanding and spoken replies from one MIT model\n\nAhead on:\n- Agent interface, 65 against 55\n\nWatch for: 259.3 GB of BF16 files and no quantised build, so it needs a multi-GPU server and doesn't fit 128 GB\n\n\n## Why the edge\n\n### Reach: Granite Speech 5.0 2B +70\n\n- Granite Speech 5.0 2B (95): Memory 30, the smallest build listed that keeps 4 bits is IBM's Q4_K_M GGUF, 1.14 GB with the 1.16 GB audio projector, and 2.30 GB × 1.2 = 2.8 GB, within 16 GB. IBM recommends Q8_0, 3.12 GB with the projector. Runtimes 20, Released Transformers 5.22.2 and vLLM 0.33.0 have the granite_speech model, llama.cpp b12242 has its converter and audio front end, and Ollama carries it as ibm/granite5-speech, which the card says was tested with v0.40.15. Builds 15, IBM publishes GGUF builds at fourteen quantised precisions, from Q2_K to Q8_0, with the audio projector. Terms 15, Apache 2.0 in the metadata and on the card, with nothing added. Download 10, the Hub API reports gated false for both repositories on 10 November 2026, so the files download with no account and nothing to accept. Hosted 5, IBM runs a Hugging Face Inference Endpoint that serves this model through an OpenAI-compatible API, with the address and code on the card. 30 + 20 + 15 + 15 + 10 + 5 = 95.\n- Ming-3.0-audio-flash (25): Memory earns 0, because the only build is inclusionAI's BF16 release at 259.3 GB, and a fifth on top is 311.2 GB, above the 256 GB band. Runtimes earn 0, since no named runtime runs the audio model from its own released code. Transformers needs the repository's remote code, vLLM and SGLang need inclusionAI's fork branches, vLLM-Omni and SGLang-Omni aren't on the list, and llama.cpp, Ollama and LM Studio don't have it. Builds earn 0 with BF16 only. Terms earn 15 for MIT with nothing added. Download earns 10, since the repository isn't gated. Hosted earns 0, with no inference provider on its Hugging Face page, none on OpenRouter and no inclusionAI API for it.\n\n### Documentation and upkeep: Granite Speech 5.0 2B +43\n\n- Granite Speech 5.0 2B (92): Model card 17, Intended use, limitations, the architecture, the size, the 16K positions and two-minute segments, and the languages are on the card. Training data 20, the data is listed with sources and sizes: a 39-row table giving each corpus, its task, its hours and a link to where it comes from, with the synthetic sets described. Last change 20, the last commit, on 6 November 2026, updated the card, 4 days before this check. Responsiveness 20, Both discussions that aren't pull requests (21 and 28 October 2026) have a reply from an ibm-granite member. Version policy 5, granite-speech-4.1-2b stays in its own repository and 5.0 came out in a new one, which names its predecessor and gives a release date. File health 10, Config, template and card agree on the architecture and the 16K positions. 17 + 20 + 20 + 20 + 5 + 10 = 92.\n- Ming-3.0-audio-flash (49): The model card earns 14, covering five of the seven points and missing limitations and a knowledge cut-off. Training data earns 0, with nothing described. Last change earns 20, with the voice interface, examples and inclusionAI's runtime branch all changed between 18 and 20 October 2026. Responsiveness earns 0, because nobody has asked a question yet in the Hugging Face discussions and GitHub issues couldn't be counted. Version policy earns 5 for a first release in its own repository. File health earns 10, with config, tokenizer, template and card in agreement and no broken-file report waiting.\n\n### Risk: Granite Speech 5.0 2B +20\n\n- Granite Speech 5.0 2B (70): File safety 25, safetensors and GGUF only, no .bin, .pt or .pth files and no Python in either repository. Provenance 15, the files sit in the ibm-granite organisation, which IBM's Granite docs link to (10). Safety evaluation 0, no safety results on the card. Agent guidance 10, the card says what the model does with a prompt it doesn't know: it ignores an unfamiliar or malformed prompt and transcribes, which it says limits how audio can steer the system. Licence risk 15, Apache 2.0 with no use policy, no threshold and no right to change the terms. Security programme 5, www.ibm.com/.well-known/security.txt names IBM PSIRT, read for the Granite 4.2 3B listing on 4 November 2026 (5). 25 + 15 + 0 + 10 + 15 + 5 = 70.\n- Ming-3.0-audio-flash (50): File safety earns 15, safetensors weights with no pickle files, less 10 because loading needs trust_remote_code and speech output imports Python from the model directory, which also ships compiled .pyc files. Provenance earns 15, files in inclusionAI's own organisation, linked from its site, and a checksum on every file. Safety evaluation earns 0, with none published. Agent guidance earns 0, since the only caution is about reviewing code before loading it. Licence risk keeps 15 under plain MIT. The security programme earns 5 for Ant Group's AntSRC reporting centre, read as a company-wide route the way Google's was for Gemma, while advisories handled in public weren't found or couldn't be checked on GitHub.\n\n### Agent interface: Ming-3.0-audio-flash +10\n\n- Granite Speech 5.0 2B (55): Chat template 20, chat_template.jinja in the repository (193 characters). Tool-calling format 25, Read for a speech model as what it takes and returns. Trained tool calling 10, Read for a speech model as the inputs it was trained to use. Structured output 0, Read for a speech model as typed outputs. Reasoning control 0, A speech model with no reasoning. Context 0, the language model is extended to 16K positions, per the card and config.json (16,384), below the 32K band, and the card says to send audio in segments of about two minutes. 20 + 25 + 10 + 0 + 0 + 0 = 55.\n- Ming-3.0-audio-flash (65): This model has a chat interface with function calls as well as speech, so the tool-calling line is read for its tool calls, as for Ming-3.0-audio-tiny, and structured output for what it returns. The chat template earns 20, a Jinja file in the repository. The tool-calling format earns 10, because function tools are declared and returned only as the template says, with no parser named, though inclusionAI's README documents the audio requests and replies for its vLLM-Omni and SGLang servers. Trained tool calling earns 20 from inclusionAI's own tool-calling sample and a template that renders several calls in one turn. Structured output earns 5, since the transcript form and audio format are documented but no timestamps or JSON output are. Reasoning control earns 0, because thinking switches per request but where its text comes back isn't documented. Context earns 10 for 131,072 tokens with no scaling.\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Granite Speech 5.0 2B | Ming-3.0-audio-flash | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Capability | 35%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Reach | 25% (25 this run) | 95 | 25 | Granite Speech 5.0 2B +70 |\n| Risk | 20% (20 this run) | 70 | 50 | Granite Speech 5.0 2B +20 |\n| Agent interface | 10% (10 this run) | 55 | 65 | Ming-3.0-audio-flash +10 |\n| Documentation and upkeep | 10% (10 this run) | 92 | 49 | Granite Speech 5.0 2B +43 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **61 · C** | **42.5 · E** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Granite Speech 5.0 2B | Ming-3.0-audio-flash |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Open-weight model | Open-weight model |\n| Vendor | IBM | inclusionAI (Ant Group) |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |\n| Transports | | |\n| Auth | None | None |\n| Pricing | Free | Free |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Apache-2.0 | MIT |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | no | no |\n| Last release | 2026-11-06 | 2026-10-20 |\n| Terms last updated | no document linked | no document linked |\n| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | no document linked |\n| Agent reviews | none | 2.3/5 (4) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Granite Speech 5.0 2B.** A small, well-kept speech model with a clean licence: six languages, translation, keyword lists, IBM's own GGUF and an Ollama entry, a signed repository and training data listed corpus by corpus. It handles about two minutes of audio at a time and returns plain text, with no timestamps or speakers, and publishes no safety results.\n\n**Ming-3.0-audio-flash.** Ming-3.0-audio-flash is a cousin for Chinese and English transcription, questions about long audio and spoken replies in built-in or cloned voices, under MIT. It needs about 260 GB on a multi-GPU server, with inclusionAI's own runtime branches or Transformers remote code. The main risks are running repository code to load it and no published safety results.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Granite Speech 5.0 2B\n\n1. Split recordings into segments of up to about two minutes of 16 kHz mono audio before sending them\n2. Use the card's prompt for the task word for word, such as `transcribe the speech with proper punctuation and capitalization.`\n3. Use Q8_0. IBM says lower precisions lose accuracy on audio over about a minute\n4. To spell names and jargon right, add a keyword list to the prompt, up to 2,000 terms\n5. With vLLM, serve with `--max-model-len 2048`, as the card does\n6. An unknown prompt falls back to transcription, so check that the output is the task you asked for\n\n### Ming-3.0-audio-flash\n\n1. Start it with inclusionAI's recipe, `hf download inclusionAI/Ming-3.0-audio-flash --local-dir inclusionAI/Ming-3.0-audio-flash \u0026\u0026 export MODEL_PATH=\"$PWD/inclusionAI/Ming-3.0-audio-flash\" \u0026\u0026 pip install -r requirements-vllm-omni.txt \u0026\u0026 MING_OUTPUT_MODE=asr ./scripts/serve_vllm_omni.sh \"$MODEL_PATH\"`, run from a clone of github.com/inclusionAI/Ming-3.0-audio-flash\n2. The 128K profile uses tensor parallelism over eight 80 GB H800 GPUs, the SGLang profile four and SGLang-Omni's cookbook two. It doesn't fit the 107.4 GB reference machine\n3. Use `MING_OUTPUT_MODE=asr` with the validated prompt and greedy decoding for transcripts, and split the language label from the text at the tab\n4. Use `MING_OUTPUT_MODE=text` for audio questions and the Talker profile with `modalities=[\"text\", \"audio\"]` for spoken replies\n5. Send audio as a base64 data URL in an `audio_url` item for vLLM-Omni, or as `input_audio` for SGLang\n6. Pick a voice with `audio.voice` and an id, or clone one with `ref_audio` and its exact `prompt_text`, never both\n7. Turn thinking on per request with `chat_template_kwargs` `{\"enable_thinking\": true}`, it's off by default and the reasoning comes back in think tags\n8. Tool calls follow the template's `\u003ctool_call\u003e` with `\u003carg_key\u003e` and `\u003carg_value\u003e` pairs, and no parser is named, so parse them yourself\n9. Review the repository's Python and the talker/ code, .pyc files included, before loading with trust_remote_code\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Granite Speech 5.0 2B or Ming-3.0-audio-flash?\n\nGranite Speech 5.0 2B scores 61 (C) on agent readiness against Ming-3.0-audio-flash's 42.5 (E), and leads in 3 of 4 scored categories. Ming-3.0-audio-flash leads on agent interface.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/granite-speech-5-0-2b-vs-ming-3-0-audio-flash.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/granite-speech-5-0-2b-vs-ming-3-0-audio-flash.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"granite-speech-5-0-2b\", \"b\": \"ming-3-0-audio-flash\"}`. 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