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6.34percent
On the authors' combined nine-accent English test set, the vanilla Whisper-large-v3 baseline had an average word error rate of 6.34 percent.
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In the source's own words
“Vanilla Whisper [ 41 ] - 1541.62 8.29 6.34 6.08 3.37 6.04 5.56 7.19 14.99 2.02 6.84 13.79”
Mixture of LoRA Experts with Multi-Modal and Multi-Granularity LLM Generative Error Correction for Accented Speech Recognition, Bingshen Mu et al., arXiv, 2025, Table II.
Open the original- What it measures
- Table II of the preprint. The test set is the authors' combined multi-accent English set of nine accents (AU, CA, CN, DE, IN, JP, UK, US, ZA). The AVG column is the average word error rate over those sets.
- What it does not show
- Authors' own test set and runs. Only the systems in this table are comparable with each other.
In the data
A row of Speech Recognition Accuracy: Word Error Rates, as Whisper-large-v3 (vanilla): 6.34 percent.
- System
- Whisper-large-v3 (vanilla)
- Kind
- Open model
- Test set
- Combined multi-accent English test sets (9 accents)
- Language
- English
- Speech
- Accented or dialect
- Year
- 2025