VibeVoice-ASR
Hugging Face (open weights) Open weights
The catch: Large for an ASR model (about 9B parameters in the repo), and setup goes through Microsoft's VibeVoice GitHub code.
| Access | Open weights |
|---|---|
| Free limits | Free to download and self-host; you pay only for your own compute. Speech-to-text that takes up to 60 minutes of audio in one pass and returns who spoke, when and what (speaker labels and timestamps); 50+ languages. MIT licence. |
| Modality | audio |
| Credit card | Not required |
| Commercial use | Allowed |
| Trains on your data | – |
| Licence or terms | MIT |
| Context window | – |
| Model id | microsoft/VibeVoice-ASR |
| Base URL | – |
| Last checked | 8 Oct 2026 |
How to use VibeVoice-ASR
Download the weights and serve them yourself; the quickstart below shows one way. Licence: MIT.
Quickstart
git clone https://github.com/microsoft/VibeVoice # then follow its ASR instructions for microsoft/VibeVoice-ASR
Paste into Claude Code
I want to run the open-weight model "VibeVoice-ASR" (microsoft/VibeVoice-ASR) for my project. Please: 1. Check the model card and tell me the hardware it needs and the simplest way to serve it (vLLM, SGLang, Ollama or a hosted endpoint). 2. Give me a minimal working setup and a test request. 3. Tell me the licence terms for commercial use. 4. If a cheaper or smaller variant would do the job, mention it.
Before you ship on it
- Large for an ASR model (about 9B parameters in the repo), and setup goes through Microsoft's VibeVoice GitHub code.
- MIT (licence tag on the HF repo): use, modify and sell freely; keep the copyright notice.
- Free to run means you pay for the GPUs, the serving stack and the on-call.
Questions
Is VibeVoice-ASR free?
Yes. Open weights offers it as open weights, with these limits: Self-host free · MIT. No credit card is needed.
Can I use VibeVoice-ASR commercially?
Yes, under MIT. Check the current terms before you ship.
How do I start with VibeVoice-ASR?
Download the weights and serve them yourself; the quickstart below shows one way. Licence: MIT.
Source: huggingface.co/microsoft/VibeVoice-ASR, checked 8 Oct 2026.