Fact · Speech recognition
4.74percent
In the on-device speech recognition word error rates on FLEURS dataset, the 9 published figures for “Parakeet TDT v3” have a median of 4.74 percent, ranging from 2.52 to 19.83.
Calculated from 9 data points on October 19, 2026
- What it measures
- Each figure is one row of the dataset: a published measurement for a stated group, traced to its source. The median is the middle value of the 9 figures for this group.
- How it is calculated
- Median of 9 values (2.52, 2.79, 3.62, 4.48, 4.74, 4.84, 5.29, 5.65, 19.83) = 4.74.
- What it does not show
- Read sentences from Wikipedia in quiet conditions are easier than dictation, conversation or noise. Numbers and spelling variants are not normalized, which counts '25' against 'twenty-five' as an error for every engine alike. One Mac, one run; we make Yap, which uses Parakeet, so we publish everything needed to check us.
A statistic of the dataset On-Device Speech Recognition Benchmark on a Mac, calculated by code from its published rows.
Calculated from
- In our October 2026 benchmark on a Mac with an M2 Pro, Parakeet TDT 0.6B v3 had a word error rate of 4.84 percent on 100 German recordings from the FLEURS test set.
- In our October 2026 benchmark on a Mac with an M2 Pro, Parakeet TDT 0.6B v3 had a word error rate of 4.48 percent on 100 English recordings from the FLEURS test set.
- In our October 2026 benchmark on a Mac with an M2 Pro, Parakeet TDT 0.6B v3 had a word error rate of 2.79 percent on 100 Spanish recordings from the FLEURS test set.
- In our October 2026 benchmark on a Mac with an M2 Pro, Parakeet TDT 0.6B v3 had a word error rate of 5.29 percent on 100 French recordings from the FLEURS test set.
- In our October 2026 benchmark on a Mac with an M2 Pro, Parakeet TDT 0.6B v3 had a word error rate of 2.52 percent on 100 Italian recordings from the FLEURS test set.
- In our October 2026 benchmark on a Mac with an M2 Pro, Parakeet TDT 0.6B v3 had a word error rate of 3.62 percent on 100 Portuguese recordings from the FLEURS test set.
- In our October 2026 benchmark on a Mac with an M2 Pro, Parakeet TDT 0.6B v3 had a word error rate of 4.74 percent on 100 Russian recordings from the FLEURS test set.
- In our October 2026 benchmark on a Mac with an M2 Pro, Parakeet TDT 0.6B v3 had a word error rate of 19.83 percent on 100 Slovenian recordings from the FLEURS test set.
- In our October 2026 benchmark on a Mac with an M2 Pro, Parakeet TDT 0.6B v3 had a word error rate of 5.65 percent on 100 Ukrainian recordings from the FLEURS test set.