On FLEURS Arabic, the word error rate of Gemini 2.5 Flash was about 64 percent higher than that of Whisper large-v3, in the Voxtral paper's comparison.

Checked against its source on October 17, 2026

What it measures: Word error rate on the FLEURS Arabic test set, from the per-language table in the Voxtral paper. A higher percentage means more words transcribed wrongly.
How it is calculated: (25.25 - 15.44) / 15.44 = 0.64
What it does not show: One language on one benchmark. The same table shows Gemini 2.5 Flash with a much lower error rate than Whisper in Hindi, so the ranking depends on the language.

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