Model Detail

granite-4.0-1b-speech is an audio model with 1B parameters released by ibm-granite. The model is registered under the automatic-speech-recognition pipeline tag on Hugging Face, distributed under the permissive apache-2.0 license.

granite-4.0-1b-speech ships with 1B parameters. Total weight footprint is approximately 2.3 GB, which is the relevant figure when planning local-inference VRAM. The apache-2.0 license is permissive, allowing commercial deployment and derivative work without per-seat fees, though attribution requirements still apply.

Downloads of granite-4.0-1b-speech have moved +47.3% over the trailing thirty days. That is a slight downtrend, consistent with normal cooling as newer models compete for the same workloads. These numbers are signal, not guarantee — week-over-week download counts on Hugging Face also reflect mirror traffic, CI scrapes, and one-off benchmarking runs.

granite-4.0-1b-speech is best fit for speech recognition, transcription, or speech synthesis depending on the task head. Treat this as a starting matrix rather than a benchmark verdict — the right deployment usually depends on the specific evaluation suite that mirrors your workload.