Model Detail

granite-speech-4.1-2b is an audio model with 2B 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-speech-4.1-2b ships with 2B 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-speech-4.1-2b have moved +1.8% over the past 24 hours, +140.4% over the trailing seven days, +9193.3% over the trailing thirty days. That puts the model in active uptrend territory; a sustained move of this size usually reflects a recent release, a viral integration, or a benchmark surprise rather than steady-state demand. 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-speech-4.1-2b 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.