Speech-to-text

VibeVoice-ASR requirements, license & speed

By Microsoft · released 2026-01-21 · 8.67B parameters

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Commercial useYes
Min memoryNot stated
Runs on CPUUnknown
StreamingNo

Key facts

License
mit source
Commercial use
Yes source
MIT; Microsoft's repo advises further testing before commercial/real-world use
Parameters
8.67B source
safetensors parameter count
Minimum memory
Not stated by source
Runs on CPU
Unknown
Streaming
No source
This checkpoint is offline; a separate VibeVoice-ASR-Streaming model exists
Voice cloning
n/a (speech-to-text)
Languages
50+ languages source
Released
2026-01-21 source
Hugging Face repo creation date (proxy for release date)
Gated on HF
No

Measured speed & memory

Benchmark pending. We haven't measured VibeVoice-ASR yet. Planned targets: Raspberry Pi 5, CPU-only x86, Apple Silicon Mac and consumer GPUs. Get notified.

Accuracy

We don't run accuracy evals. For word error rate, check the Hugging Face Open ASR Leaderboard.

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