Granite Speech 5.0 Turbo CTC challenges Whisper's speed

ibm released granite speech 5.0 turbo ctc on hugging face, a compact 470m parameter automatic speech recognition model. the release focuses on the ctc architecture to deliver extremely fast and accurate transcription performance suitable for edge or real-time deployment. it targets developers requiring efficient asr solutions without the overhead of larger, general-purpose models. this signals ibm's continued contribution of performant, open-weights models for specific audio processing tasks.