VibeVoice-ASR-HF (microsoft) specs, prices, where it runs and its benchmark standing

Name: VibeVoice-ASR-HF (microsoft)
Author: Microsoft

open weights · top 10 on 0 of 1 · released Jan 21, 2026

Provider: Microsoft
Release date: Jan 21, 2026; Hugging Face
Parameters: 8.7B total; Hugging Face
Modalities: Audio to Text; Hugging Face
License: MIT; Hugging Face
Hosting: self-host: weights on Hugging Face
Hardware: Estimate: about 17 GB of weights as published (BF16), about 8.7 GB at 8-bit, about 4.3 GB at 4-bit, plus memory for the context; Hugging Face config
Weights: Open weights
Benchmarks: 1 board captured

Rank	Board	Category	Score	Of	Over time
51	Open ASRSpeech · as “microsoft/VibeVoice-ASR-HF”	Speech	9.54 WER	62

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