Fact · Speech recognition
7.21percent average WER
On the Open ASR Leaderboard's English short-form tests, Distil-Whisper Large v3.5 had an average word error rate of 7.21 percent, with an RTFx of 202.
Checked against its source on October 17, 2026
In the source's own words
“Distil-Whisper Large v3.5 Yes 7.21 202 Whisper”
Open ASR Leaderboard: Towards Reproducible and Transparent Multilingual and Long-Form Speech Recognition Evaluation, Hugging Face and collaborators, arXiv, 2025, Table 3, short-form English.
Open the original- What it measures
- The row is listed under the Whisper encoder family, as a distilled version of Whisper.
- What it does not show
- Average over the leaderboard's English datasets, normalized text. The leaderboard snapshot is from March 2026.