Fact · Dictation software
9.11percent word error rate
The Kid-Whisper study reports reducing the word error rate of Whisper-Small on the MyST children's test set from 13.93% to 9.11%.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“We reduce the Word Error Rate (WER) on the MyST testset 13.93% to 9.11% with Whisper-Small”
Kid-Whisper: Towards Bridging the Performance Gap in Automatic Speech Recognition for Children VS. Adults, Ahmed Adel Attia et al., arXiv (eess.AS), revised May 2024, 2023, Abstract.
Open the original- What it measures
- MyST is a corpus of children's speech from classroom science tutoring. The study adapts Whisper for children and reports results on that test set.
- What it does not show
- Research models fine-tuned for children, not an off-the-shelf consumer dictation app. The number shows how hard children's speech is for this type of model, not how a particular app performs.