Fact · Speech recognition
4.12percent word error rate
NVIDIA Canary 1B had a word error rate of 4.12 percent on Multilingual LibriSpeech French.
Quote found word for word on the live source, last checked October 19, 2026
In the source's own words
“WER on [MLS](https://huggingface.co/datasets/facebook/multilingual_librispeech) test set: | **Version** | **Model** | **En** | **De** | **Es** | **Fr** | ... | 1.23.0 | canary-1b | 3.06 | 4.19 | 3.15 | 4.12 |”
canary-1b model card (raw README), NVIDIA, Hugging Face (NVIDIA model card), n.d., WER table, fr column.
Open the original- What it measures
- The card's performance section gives WER on this test set, with text normalized by whisper-normalizer before scoring.
- What it does not show
- A vendor-run figure from one version of the test set. Compare only within the same test set and normalization.
In the data
A row of Speech Recognition Accuracy: Word Error Rates, as Canary 1B, MLS French: 4.12 percent.
- System
- NVIDIA Canary 1B
- Kind
- Open model
- Test set
- Multilingual LibriSpeech
- Language
- French
- Speech
- Clean read speech