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The same 2024 study found significantly lower quality for streaming speech recognition, the mode used for live events.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“We also measured a significant lower quality for streaming ASR, which is used for live events.”
Measuring the Accuracy of Automatic Speech Recognition Solutions, Korbinian Kuhn et al., arXiv (preprint), 2024, Abstract.
Open the original- What it measures
- Streaming recognition produces words as the speaker talks, which is the mode that live captions use.
- What it does not show
- The study reports the difference as significant. It does not give one overall error rate that applies to every live product.
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