IBM releases Granite Speech 5.0 2B and a multilingual Granite Speech 5.0 Turbo CTC model
IBM Granite on Hugging Face published this on Oct 21, 2026 (source: huggingface.co).
IBM announced three updates to its Granite Speech collection: Granite Speech 5.0 2B, a more accurate and robust speech-language model with more control; Granite Speech 5.0 Turbo CTC, now multilingual and faster; and Granite Speech 4.1 2B Plus, which is better at attributing who said what, and when.