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5percent word error rate
A 2026 study notes that automatic speech recognition reaches word error rates below 5 percent on typical speech, but performance degrades sharply for dysarthric speakers.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“achieves word error rates (WER) below 5% on typical speech”
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
- The study's opening statement, which gives the baseline for the dysarthric results that follow.
- What it does not show
- A background statement quoted in the paper, not a measurement made by the authors.