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1 to 2percent word error rate
In a 2026 study of commercial systems, the leading services reached about 1 to 2 percent word error rate on mild dysarthria.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“mild dysarthria reached low single-digit WER, around 1% to 2% for the leading systems”
Benchmarking Commercial Speech Recognition and Multimodal Large Language Models on Dysarthric Speech, Ali Alsayegh and Tariq Masood, International Journal of Intelligent Systems, 2026, Abstract.
Open the original (DOI 10.1155/int/6065038)- What it measures
- Mild dysarthria in the study means 2 speakers from the TORGO corpus, tested with default settings in September 2025.
- What it does not show
- Two speakers and one head-mounted microphone. The figure describes this corpus and window, not all mild speech.