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A 2024 study of eleven common speech recognition services on university lecture recordings found accuracy varied widely between vendors and between individual recordings.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“Our results show that accuracy ranges widely between vendors and for the individual audio samples.”
Measuring the Accuracy of Automatic Speech Recognition Solutions, Korbinian Kuhn et al., arXiv (preprint), 2024, Abstract.
Open the original- What it measures
- The authors tested eleven services with recordings of higher education lectures and measured word error rate on each.
- What it does not show
- Lecture audio, not conversation, phone calls or noisy rooms. A preprint when checked.