Granite 4.0 1B Speech: Compact, Multilingual, and Built for the Edge

We’re excited to share Granite 4.0 1B Speech, the latest addition to IBM's Granite Speech collection. Designed for enterprise applications on resource-constrained devices, Granite 4.0 1B Speech is a compact speech-language model built for multilingual automatic speech recognition (ASR) and bidirectional speech translation (AST). With only half the parameters of its predecessor, granite-speech-3.3-2b, the model delivers higher English transcription accuracy, faster inference through speculative d