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39benchmarks out of 59
In the Vistaar benchmark, IndicWhisper, a Whisper model fine-tuned on Indian-language data, had the lowest word error rate in 39 of the 59 benchmarks.
Checked against its source on October 17, 2026
In the source's own words
“IndicWhisper has the lowest WER in 39 out of the 59 benchmarks”
Vistaar: Diverse Benchmarks and Training Sets for Indian Language ASR, Kaushal Santosh Bhogale et al., Interspeech 2023 (arXiv:2305.15386), 2023, Abstract.
Open the original- What it measures
- The Vistaar authors compared IndicWhisper with three publicly available speech recognition systems and two commercial ones, on 59 benchmarks across Indian languages.
- What it does not show
- This is a count of wins, not an average accuracy, and each benchmark has its own difficulty. The model was built and tested by the same research group that wrote the benchmark.