IBM releases Granite Switch 4.1.1 with updated Speech ASR and Decision adapters

·2026.10.29 22:37

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The patch release updates the Granite Speech ASR model for 10 languages and improves the Decision adapter without recomputing the base model.

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IBM released Granite Switch 4.1.1 as a patch update that is fully backwards compatible with 4.1 and requires no migration.
The update includes a new Granite Speech ASR model supporting multilingual speech-to-text across 10 languages with native punctuation and capitalization.
The Decision adapter in granitelib-core was updated to improve performance on the Jev Decision Index test set.
The base model remained untouched during the update, allowing teams to deploy new adapters without recomputing the entire system.
IBM is developing an Adapter SDK and tutorials to enable developers and third parties to build and ship their own adapters.

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