ibm-granite / automatic-speech-recognition updated 1 month ago

granite-speech-4.1-2b

Name: granite-speech-4.1-2b
Author: ibm-granite

Model Summary: Granite Speech 4.1 2B is a compact and efficient speech-language model, specifically designed for multilingual automatic speech recognition (ASR) and bidirectional automatic speech translation (AST) for English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese and Japanese.

Params

2.3 B

Context

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Commercial use: allowed apache-2.0 Not gated SAFETENSORS 7 languages View on Hugging Face ↗

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Can you run it?

Estimated VRAM at 8K context unless noted. Pick your hardware to see the verdict per quantization.

File	Quant	Size	Est. VRAM	Verdict on RTX 4090 · 24 GB
model.safetensors	bf16	4.8 GB	6.2 GB	✅ Runs comfortably

Estimate: file size × 1.1 + KV cache at 8K + 0.5 GB overhead. Not a benchmark — how we calculate this.

Specifications

Architecture: GraniteSpeechForConditionalGeneration
Parameters: 2.3 B
Tensor type: BF16
Licence: apache-2.0
First seen on the Hub: 2026-04-16
Training datasets: undisclosed
Added to our catalog: 2026-07-28

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