OpenVINO IR port of ai-sage/GigaAM-v3 revision e2e_rnnt — Sber's SOTA Russian ASR model (220M parameters, Conformer + RNN-T with end-to-end punctuation and capitalization).

Conversion done with:

python

from transformers import AutoModel
import torch
model = AutoModel.from_pretrained("ai-sage/GigaAM-v3", revision="e2e_rnnt", trust_remote_code=True)
model.to_onnx(dir_path="onnx", dtype=torch.float16)
# then:
import openvino as ov
for f in ["encoder", "decoder", "joint"]:
    m = ov.convert_model(f"onnx/v3_e2e_rnnt_{f}.onnx")
    ov.save_model(m, f"v3_e2e_rnnt_{f}.xml")

Files

File	Purpose	Size
`v3_e2e_rnnt_encoder.xml/.bin`	Conformer encoder (main cost)	~425 MB FP16
`v3_e2e_rnnt_decoder.xml/.bin`	RNN-T decoder (prediction network)	~2 MB
`v3_e2e_rnnt_joint.xml/.bin`	Joint network	~1.3 MB
`tokenizer.model`	SentencePiece vocabulary (1024 subwords)	250 KB
`config.json`	Original model config (for reference)	2 KB

Device compatibility (Intel hardware)

Verified on Intel Core Ultra 9 285H (OpenVINO 2025.4.1):

Device	Encoder	Decoder	Joint	Usable?
CPU	✅	✅	✅	Yes (~34× RTFx on 10 s chunk)
GPU.0 (Arc Xe2 iGPU)	✅	✅	✅	Yes (~520× RTFx on encoder alone)
NPU	❌ (dynamic shapes)	✅	❌ (dynamic shapes)	Partial only

Recommended device: Intel Arc iGPU (GPU.0) — fastest and does not compete with NVIDIA for VRAM.

NPU fails compile on encoder/joint due to dynamic input shapes in the exported ONNX (upper bounds 9223372036854775807). A re-export with static reshape at 10 s chunks would likely unlock NPU.

Usage (Python, pure OpenVINO)

python

import openvino as ov
core = ov.Core()
encoder = core.compile_model("v3_e2e_rnnt_encoder.xml", "GPU.0")
decoder = core.compile_model("v3_e2e_rnnt_decoder.xml", "GPU.0")
joint   = core.compile_model("v3_e2e_rnnt_joint.xml",   "GPU.0")

# Preprocess: audio 16 kHz mono -> log-mel (64 bins, 20 ms win, 10 ms hop)
# Encoder: features -> encoder outputs
# Decoder + Joint: RNN-T greedy decode loop -> token IDs
# SentencePieceProcessor(tokenizer.model).decode(ids) -> text

A reference Python backend is available in the Voice Scribe project (MIT license).

Credits

Original model: Sber / ai-sage/GigaAM-v3 (MIT)
OpenVINO conversion: Voice Scribe project

License

MIT (matches upstream ai-sage/GigaAM-v3).

VoiceScribe/voicescribe-gigaam

GigaAM-v3 e2e_rnnt (OpenVINO IR, pre-converted)

Files

Device compatibility (Intel hardware)

Usage (Python, pure OpenVINO)

Credits

License

VoiceScribe/
voicescribe-gigaam