Granite Speech 5.0 2B
by IBM Open-weight model in Speech-to-text
International Business Machines Corporation · ibm.com since 1986 · who's behind it
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.
Best for Agents that need to transcribe or translate short recordings in the six supported languages on modest hardware
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Trained by IBM (Granite), in the Granite Speech family granite-speech-5.0-470m-turboctc · granite-speech-4.1-2b · all its cousins, older versions
Assessment. 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.
Facts
Access how an agent reaches and pays for it
- Auth
- None
- Pricing
- Free
- x402
- No
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
Where it lives packages, source, docs and releases
- Packages
huggingfaceibm-granite/granite-speech-5.0-2bhuggingfaceibm-granite/granite-speech-5.0-2b-GGUFollamaibm/granite5-speech- llms.txt
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- Last release
From our research 9 facts checked against the vendor's pages
- Surface graded
- The open weights at huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-speech-5.0-2b and the GGUF repository beside it, read from the model card, the files and their metadata, the config, the chat template, the commit history, Ollama's page for ibm/granite5-speech and the runtimes' own code at their latest releases on 10 November 2026. IBM's company facts come from our Granite 4.2 listings. The blog post, the papers and the ONNX repository weren't read. Nothing was downloaded or run
- Model
- 2,313,207,132 parameters in the files. A 16-block conformer speech encoder trained with CTC, a two-layer window Q-Former that brings the audio down to 10 embeddings a second, and an intermediate checkpoint of granite-4.0-1b-base as the language model, extended to 16K positions. GraniteSpeechForConditionalGeneration
- Languages
- English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese and Japanese for transcription, and translation to and from English for the same, plus English to Italian and English to Mandarin
- Files
- Two safetensors shards in BF16 (5.04 GB), chat_template.jinja, config, processor and tokenizer files, a sample recording and model.sig, a sigstore signature. No pickle files and no Python. The GGUF repository has fifteen precisions from Q2_K to BF16 and a 1.16 GB audio projector. Hugging Face lists a SHA-256 for the large files
- Licence
- Apache 2.0, in the metadata of both repositories and on the card
- Runtimes
- The card documents Transformers (4.52.1 or later), vLLM, llama.cpp with IBM's GGUF, Ollama (ibm/granite5-speech, tested with v0.40.15), mlx-audio 0.5.9 on Apple Silicon and a LiteRT-LM conversion from the LiteRT community. Released Transformers 5.22.2, vLLM 0.33.0 and llama.cpp b12242 carry the architecture. SGLang 0.5.23 doesn't
- Input and output
- 16 kHz mono audio of up to about two minutes with a task prompt, and text out. The card's prompt table covers raw or punctuated transcripts, a named language, translation, and a keyword list to bias towards, up to 2,000 terms. No timestamps or speaker labels are documented
- Hardware
- No memory figure on the card. Q8_0 with the projector is 3.12 GB and BF16 5.04 GB. The LiteRT-LM conversion is a 2.8 GB file tested on Android and macOS
- Training data
- 390,000 hours of audio from public corpora and synthetic sets, per the card, listed in a 39-row table with the task, the hours and a source link for each: Common Voice 17, Multilingual LibriSpeech, LibriHeavy, VoxPopuli, Granary and others. No cut-off date
Facts verified 10 November 2026 from vendor docs, repositories and package registries. JSON · Markdown
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
Before you call it notes for agents
- 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
Who's behind it provenance 88/100
- Legal entity namedInternational Business Machines Corporation (per IBM's naming guidance, as read for granite-guardian)20/20
- Domain ageibm.com, registered 1986-03-19 (40 years)15/15
- Endpoint on the vendor's domainno hosted endpointn/a
- Terms of servicenothing hosted, so the Apache-2.0 licence stands in10/10
- Privacy policynothing hosted, not scoredn/a
- Status pagenot found0/10
- Changelogpublished10/10
- security.txtvalid10/10
- People named5 named with their role, none with a public profile7/10
- Support routehelp pages, a community5/5
Terms and privacy, as read
Terms of service none to read
TL;DR Nothing is hosted by the vendor, so there are no terms of service to read. The Apache-2.0 licence stands in and the check scores in full.
Privacy policy none to read
TL;DR Nothing is hosted by the vendor, so there is no privacy policy to read and the check isn't scored.
A reading by a fixed set of rules, each answered with the vendor's own sentence. It isn't legal advice, a rule can miss a clause or misread one, and the document itself is what binds. How it's read and scored.
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.
Checked 2026-11-10 against the vendor's own pages and the domain registry. Provenance is half of Transparency & trust.
Humans behind the project who makes it and where to get help
Key people
- Charles Ranlett FlintCo-founder, IBM (as Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company)
- Herman HollerithCo-founder, IBM (as Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company)
- George Winthrop FairchildCo-founder, IBM (as Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company)
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Arvind KrishnaChairman, President and Chief Executive Officer
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Jay GambettaDirector of IBM Research
Ownership Public company (NYSE: IBM)
Researched 10 November 2026 from public pages. IBM is a listed company whose founders, per Wikipedia, are those of its 1911 predecessor, the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company. IBM's senior leadership page, read on 28 October 2026, names Arvind Krishna as Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer and Jay Gambetta as Director of IBM Research, the lab that announces and publishes the Granite models (https://research.ibm.com/blog/introducing-granite-4-2). IBM names no chief technology officer there, and the Granite pages name no single product lead. The paper authors on two listings (Parul Awasthy on granite-embedding-small-english-r2, Inkit Padhi on granite-guardian) stay as they are. Shown for information, not part of the grade yet. People's accounts link to their own profiles; check them before you rely on one.
Notable
- 9,632 downloads in the last 30 days and 81 likes on Hugging Face on 10 November 2026, three weeks after release source
- The card documents six ways to run it: Transformers, vLLM, llama.cpp, Ollama, mlx-audio and LiteRT-LM, with code for each source
- IBM recommends Q8_0. The card says lower-bit quantisations lose accuracy on audio longer than about a minute source
- It works on segments of up to about two minutes, so longer recordings have to be split first, with voice activity detection for instance source
- The training data table lists 39 rows of corpora with hours and a source link each, 390,000 hours in all per the card source
- The card says an unfamiliar or malformed prompt is ignored and the model falls back to transcription, and recommends Granite Guardian beside it source
- The repository carries a sigstore signature, model.sig, and an IBM member replied in both of its discussions source
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Score breakdown methodology v0.7 · October 2026 research run
Assessed on 10 November 2026 from public evidence, against the published checklist. Confidence low. Performance and Task success are pending until our probes and task suites run, so the total is over the 7 assessed categories, each weight divided by 80.
| Category | Weight this run | Score | Points |
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| Capabilitynot scored in this run | 35%pending | pending | n/a |
| Reachchecked 10 November 2026 | 25%38.5 | 36.5 | |
| 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. | |||
| Riskchecked 10 November 2026 | 20%30.8 | 21.5 | |
| 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. | |||
| Agent interfacechecked 10 November 2026 | 10%15.4 | 8.5 | |
| 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. | |||
| Documentation and upkeepchecked 10 November 2026 | 10%15.4 | 14.2 | |
| 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. | |||
| Negative events | ≤15 | None recorded | 0 |
| Total | 61 · C | ||
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Graded 61 C methodology v0.7
Fix list 12 items, the biggest gain first
Everything this grade says the listing lacks, from the reasons above, the checklist, the provenance checks, the deductions, what we couldn't check and what the review panel asked for, with the steps, ready to paste into a coding agent working on Granite Speech 5.0 2B. A fix counts at the next check, once it's public.
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What we couldn't check
- 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
Sources 14
- model card huggingface.co · seen 2026-11-10
- gating, dates, parameter count, downloads, likes, file list and hashes huggingface.co · seen 2026-11-10
- IBM's GGUF repository: files and sizes huggingface.co · seen 2026-11-10
- inference providers, none mapped huggingface.co · seen 2026-11-10
- commit history huggingface.co · seen 2026-11-10
- architecture and positions huggingface.co · seen 2026-11-10
- chat template huggingface.co · seen 2026-11-10
- discussions, replies counted by script from authors, dates and member flags huggingface.co · seen 2026-11-10
- Ollama's page for ibm/granite5-speech ollama.com · seen 2026-11-10
- vLLM v0.33.0, granite_speech.py raw.githubusercontent.com · seen 2026-11-10
- Transformers v5.22.2 granite_speech github.com · seen 2026-11-10
- llama.cpp b12242, the converter (conversion/granite.py) and the audio front end (tools/mtmd), shallow clone github.com · seen 2026-11-10
- IBM's security.txt, as read for the Granite 4.2 3B listing ibm.com · seen 2026-11-10
- our Granite 4.2 listings, for company facts anchorterminal.com · seen 2026-11-10
Probe metrics
Not measured yet. Our benchmark probes haven't run, so there's no availability, latency or error rate from a run and Performance is pending. The pollers record uptime for hosted endpoints as they run, and that doesn't change the score either.
Pricing & changes
Free Free 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).
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Install
brew install llama.cpp
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."
# or: ollama run ibm/granite5-speech:2b, or vllm serve ibm-granite/granite-speech-5.0-2b --max-model-len 2048First request
# vLLM and llama-server both serve an OpenAI-compatible chat API. Send 16 kHz mono audio of up to about
# two minutes as base64 in the message, with one of the card's task prompts as the textAlternatives to Granite Speech 5.0 2B
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Machine-readable
| Similar tool | Grade | Score | Shared capabilities | x402 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe 30B-A4B NVIDIA | C | 61 | speech.stt speech.batch speech.languages speech.translation model.open-weights | no |
| Azure AI Speech speech-to-text Microsoft | BB | 75.1 | speech.stt speech.batch speech.languages speech.translation | no |
| Gladia Speech-to-Text API + MCP Gladia | B | 69.8 | speech.stt speech.batch speech.languages speech.translation | no |
| Soniox Speech-to-Text Soniox | B | 68.5 | speech.stt speech.batch speech.languages speech.translation | no |
| Speechmatics Speech-to-Text Speechmatics | B | 67.8 | speech.stt speech.batch speech.languages speech.translation | no |
| Parakeet TDT 0.6B v3 NVIDIA | B | 66.9 | speech.stt speech.batch speech.languages model.open-weights | no |
Machine-readable
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/api/v1/tools/granite-speech-5-0-2b.json· historyhistory.json· badge/badges/granite-speech-5-0-2b.svg· changes feed/feeds/tools/granite-speech-5-0-2b.xml - Markdown
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/fixes/granite-speech-5-0-2b.md·/fixes/granite-speech-5-0-2b.json· the whole listPOST /api/v1/fix-list - From a terminal
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