Fact · Languages and accents
5.1times the English error rate
On the FLEURS benchmark, Whisper large-v2's word error rate in Hindi was about 5.1 times its rate in English.
Checked against its source on October 17, 2026
- What it measures
- Both rates come from the same FLEURS table for Whisper large-v2 in the 2022 paper, so the ratio compares like with like. It is a ratio of two word error rates, not a measured error rate itself.
- How it is calculated
- 21.5 / 4.2 = 5.1