Fact · Languages and accents
3.8times
On the Fleurs benchmark, Whisper large-v2's word error rate for Arabic was about 3.8 times its rate for English.
Checked against its source on October 17, 2026
- What it measures
- Calculated from two Whisper large-v2 word error rates on the same Fleurs test set, for Arabic and for English. The result is a ratio of the two rates, not a difference in percentage points.
- How it is calculated
- 16.0 / 4.2 = 3.8