Fact · Languages and accents
In the same 2025 study of non-native English, the five recognition systems varied significantly in how they handled disfluencies such as filler words, repetitions and revisions.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“The study also examined how each system handled disfluencies such as filler words, repetitions, and revisions, finding significant variation in performance across systems and disfluency types.”
Automatic Speech Recognition for Non-Native English: Accuracy and Disfluency Handling, Michael McGuire, arXiv, 2025, Abstract.
Open the original- What it measures
- Disfluencies are the hesitations, restarts and self-corrections that appear in natural speech. The study compared the systems on the spontaneous narrative recordings as well as the read sentences.
- What it does not show
- The abstract reports significant variation without giving a per-system breakdown in this record. Read the full paper before quoting a specific system's result.