Fact · Languages and accents
11.4percent word error rate
On the FLEURS subset of the Vistaar Hindi benchmark, IndicWhisper had a word error rate of 11.4 percent.
Checked against its source on October 17, 2026
In the source's own words
“IndicWhisper 10.3 12.0 11.4 15.0 7.6 12.0 26.8 13.6”
Vistaar: Diverse Benchmarks and Training Sets for Indian Language ASR, Kaushal Santosh Bhogale et al., Interspeech 2023 (arXiv:2305.15386), 2023, Table 3.
Open the original- What it measures
- Table 3 of the Vistaar paper compares public and commercial recognizers on seven Hindi test sets. The FLEURS column is the third number in the IndicWhisper row. The FLEURS test set is the same benchmark the Whisper paper used for Hindi.
- What it does not show
- Vistaar's text normalization may differ from the Whisper paper's, so the two numbers are close to but not exactly comparable. The Vistaar figure is for a model fine-tuned on Indian-language data.