⌕Is ___ SOTA?
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Speech · Oct 14, 2026
Who is SOTA in Speech-to-text?
Nobody yet.

English short-form word error rate on the Hugging Face Open ASR Leaderboard. Lower is better. A tight top of the board does not get a forced crown. As of Oct 14, 2026, Speech-to-text has no model with enough independent evidence for a SOTA crown.

No open model on the current board has a known parameter count at or below 32B. Counts come from Epoch, or from a size written in the model name, such as 27B.
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