# Bad Influence story: Artificial Analysis ranks Salesforce's SOV-Transcribe-1 top open-weights speech-to-text model

Active · 5 articles · 1 source · First reported 11-12 11:30. Times are ET.
Story page: https://badinfluence.news/story/dafb61b1-0ce3-4ba1-bc90-27ce3e8479b8

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Latest update (11-12 11:30): Artificial Analysis reports SOV-Transcribe-1 transcribes 60x real time on Salesforce

Overview: Artificial Analysis says Salesforce's SOV-Transcribe-1 is the top open-weights speech-to-text model, with a 2.3% word error rate on its AA-WER Index and 4.6B active parameters. It ranks seventh of 44 models including proprietary ones, and is 0.5 points ahead of Mistral's Voxtral Small and Nvidia's Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe, both at 2.8%.

At 4.6B active parameters, SOV-Transcribe-1 is more accurate than Voxtral Small, which has 24B active parameters, and Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe, which has 4B. Artificial Analysis says it leads open-weights models on the Earnings22 earnings-call dataset at 4.1% versus 4.8% for Voxtral Small, and on VoxPopuli parliamentary speech at 1.5% versus 1.8%. On its AA-AgentTalk voice-agent dataset it scores 1.8%, level with Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe.

Artificial Analysis also reports that Salesforce's hosted endpoint runs SOV-Transcribe-1 at a 60x Speed Factor, transcribing one minute of audio in about one second.

Coverage timeline (newest first):
1. 11-12 11:30 · Artificial Analysis · [Artificial Analysis reports SOV-Transcribe-1 transcribes 60x real time on Salesforce](https://badinfluence.news/items/g3fkcsekibsnf00fwyuw6nhjb)
2. 11-12 11:30 · Artificial Analysis · [Artificial Analysis finds SOV-Transcribe-1 leads open-weights speech models on two datasets](https://badinfluence.news/items/oapvl8mxxcrgypf57j89ci92e)
3. 11-12 11:30 · Artificial Analysis · [SOV-Transcribe-1 beats larger transcription models on accuracy with 4.6B active parameters](https://badinfluence.news/items/sc7gn86xf7rlsp1fn4qaho27n)
4. 11-12 11:30 · Artificial Analysis · [Artificial Analysis ranks SOV-Transcribe-1 top of open-weights speech models](https://badinfluence.news/items/jjsrkjjm7cnnoq5f2gi4nnw1w)
5. 11-12 11:30 · Artificial Analysis · [Artificial Analysis ranks SOV-Transcribe-1 top open-weights speech-to-text model](https://badinfluence.news/items/chivft99onok5t6dep2w0f3z2)
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