Fact · Speech recognition
6.77percent word error rate
In a 2026 preprint, the reported word error rate was 6.77 percent for ElevenLabs and 5.05 percent for Whisper large, on the paper's common benchmark table.
Checked against its source on October 17, 2026
In the source's own words
“ElevenLabs 6.77% Whisper large 5.05%”
Quality of Automatic Speech Recognition: Polish Language case study, from Wav2Vec to Scribe ElevenLabs, Marcin Pietroń et al., Pietron et al., 2026, Section 5, Results on common benchmarks.
Open the original- What it measures
- One preprint, on a benchmark table that the authors label LibriSpeech. The paper does not say which ElevenLabs model it used, so the number may not match the current Scribe v2.
- What it does not show
- A counterexample to the leaderboard result. It is evidence that the answer depends on the test, not a verdict on the product.