Model reference · open weights
VibeVoice-ASR-Streaming is an open-weight audio or speech model from microsoft. AxForge deploys and operates it for you on dedicated EU-owned hardware — with the licence handled where one is required.
Available as managed deployment — configured and operated for you on dedicated EU hardware, quoted per deployment.
What it is
| Released by | microsoft |
|---|---|
| Type | Audio & music |
| Task | Speech→text |
| Parameters (lead) | 2.8B |
| Runs with | transformers |
| Released | 2026-09-02 |
| Popularity | 0 downloads / month |
| Licence | Open weights |
About
VibeVoice-ASR-Streaming is a unified streaming ASR model that transcribes Who (Speaker) said What (Content), with support for Customized Hotwords and 10 languages.
➡️ Code: microsoft/VibeVoice ➡️ Demo: VibeVoice-ASR-Streaming
📝 Streaming Speaker-Attributed Transcription: Continuously transcribes who said what as speech arrives.
👤 Customized Hotwords: Users can provide customized hotwords, such as names and technical terms, to improve recognition of domain-specific content.
🌍 Multilingual Support: It supports Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish.
Please refer to the GitHub repository.
This project is licensed under the MIT License.
This project was conducted by members of Microsoft Research. We welcome feedback and collaboration from our audience. If you have suggestions, questions, or observe unexpected/offensive behavior in our technology, please contact us at VibeVoice@microsoft.com. If the team receives reports of undesired behavior or identifies issues independently, we will update this repository with appropriate mitigations.
From the published model card. Full card on the HuggingFace links in the sidebar.
Using it via the API
Once AxForge deploys vibevoice-asr-streaming for you, it answers on the OpenAI-compatible API — the same base URL and keys as every other model. (vibevoice-asr-streaming below is illustrative; you get the exact model name on deployment.)
$ curl -sS https://api.axforge.ai/v1/audio/transcriptions \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $AXFORGE_API_KEY" \ -F model="vibevoice-asr-streaming" -F file=@audio.mp3
Create an account — your API key is available in the console. 3M free tokens every 30 days with every new account.