Best Open Source Speech-to-Text Models to Self-Host in 2026
Speech to Text
Self-Hosted AI
Local AI
The best open-weight speech-to-text models you can self-host in October 2026, ranked on the Hugging Face Open ASR Leaderboard: Qwen3-ASR, Cohere Transcribe, Granite Speech, Parakeet, Voxtral, Whisper and more, with licenses, speed and serving.