GigaAM

GigaAM-v3 is a Conformer-based foundation model with 220–240M parameters, pretrained on diverse Russian speech data using the HuBERT-CTC objective. It is the third generation of the GigaAM family and provides state-of-the-art performance on Russian ASR across a wide range of domains.

GigaAM-v3 includes the following model variants:

• ssl — self-supervised HuBERT–CTC encoder pre-trained on 700,000 hours of Russian speech
• ctc — ASR model fine-tuned with a CTC decoder
• rnnt — ASR model fine-tuned with an RNN-T decoder
• e2e_ctc — end-to-end CTC model with punctuation and text normalization
• e2e_rnnt — end-to-end RNN-T model with punctuation and text normalization

GigaAM-v3 training incorporates new internal datasets: callcenter conversations, speech with background music, natural speech, and speech with atypical characteristics. the models perform on average 30% better on these new domains, while maintaining the same quality as previous GigaAM generations on public benchmarks.

The table below reports the Word Error Rate (%) for GigaAM-v3 and other existing models over diverse domains.

The end-to-end ASR models (e2e_ctc and e2e_rnnt) produce punctuated, normalized text directly. In end-to-end ASR comparisons of e2e_ctc and e2e_rnnt against Whisper-large-v3, using Gemini 2.5 Pro as an LLM-as-a-judge, GigaAM-v3 models win by an average margin of 70:30.

For detailed results, see metrics.

Usage

from transformers import AutoModel

revision = "e2e_rnnt"  # can be any v3 model: ssl, ctc, rnnt, e2e_ctc, e2e_rnnt
model = AutoModel.from_pretrained(
    "ai-sage/GigaAM-v3",
    revision=revision,
    trust_remote_code=True,
)

transcription = model.transcribe("example.wav")
print(transcription)

Recommended versions:

• torch==2.8.0, torchaudio==2.8.0
• transformers==4.57.1
• pyannote-audio==4.0.0, torchcodec==0.7.0
• (any) hydra-core, omegaconf, sentencepiece

Full usage guide can be found in the example.

License: MIT

Paper: GigaAM: Efficient Self-Supervised Learner for Speech Recognition (InterSpeech 2025)