Turning Turbulence Into Transcripts
IBM, Friday, March 20th, 2026
IBM worked with Australia's Royal Flying Doctor Service to aid clinicians on the ground and in the air using IBM Granite's high-performing speech recognition technology.
Have you ever tried to dictate a text message to a friend, or asked a voice assistant a question, only to find out that your phone completely misunderstood you? Chances are, if you've used any major smartphone software in the last decade, you have. Often, that's because these systems can't decipher speech in imperfect situations. And most of the time, the real world is less than perfect.
New applications of IBM's Granite speech model show, however, that even in loud and trying scenarios, the model can understand people far more easily than other major language models. This has the potential to unlock myriad new use cases for LLMs where the primary input is speech.