# IBM AI Releases Granite Speech 5.0 2B for Multilingual Transcription and Translation

> **Publication**: aitalky (Independent AI Journalism)
> **Canonical Citation URL**: https://aitalky.vercel.app/news/ibm-ai-releases-granite-speech-5-0-2b-for-multilingual-transcription-and-translation
> **Original Source**: [MarkTechPost](https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/10/22/ibm-granite-speech-5-0-2b-release/)
> **Author**: Asif Razzaq (undefined)
> **Published Date**: Thursday, October 22, 2026
> **Category**: RESEARCH
> **Tags**: AI, MarkTechPost, research

## Executive Summary
IBM released Granite Speech 5.0 2B, an Apache 2.0 speech recognition and translation model. It ranks #2 on the Open ASR Leaderboard with 5.68% average English WER, alongside updated Turbo CTC and 4.1 2B Plus models



## Full Coverage
IBM released Granite Speech 5.0 2B, an Apache 2.0 speech recognition and translation model. It ranks #2 on the Open ASR Leaderboard with 5.68% average English WER, alongside updated Turbo CTC and 4.1 2B Plus models

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