Open speech recognition stopped being a Whisper monoculture in 2026. Cohere Transcribe, IBM Granite Speech 4.1, ARK-ASR and MOSS-Transcribe are now separated by less than one WER point on the Hugging Face Open ASR Leade…
Open-weights releases pressure closed pricing and widen access, changing the build-vs-buy math for the whole ecosystem.
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