Fact · Speech recognition
9.81percent word error rate
In the Voxtral paper's Table 6, ElevenLabs Scribe had a word error rate of 9.81 percent on Multilingual LibriSpeech German.
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In the source's own words
“Model nl fr de it pt es ... Scribe 38.01 5.80 9.81 12.38 15.40 8.97”
Voxtral, Mistral AI, arXiv (Audio and Speech Processing), 2025, Table 6 (Multilingual LibriSpeech), column de.
Open the original- What it measures
- Multilingual LibriSpeech is read audiobook speech in six languages in this table. The table sits in the same paper, so the systems were compared on the same test.
- What it does not show
- One paper's runs under its own text normalization and decoding, so compare systems within this table, not with other papers' numbers. The paper gives no date per row. The paper names this system "ElevenLabs Scribe" in Table 3 and "Scribe" in Tables 4 to 6; this row treats them as one system.
In the data
A row of Speech Recognition Accuracy: Word Error Rates, as ElevenLabs Scribe, MLS German: 9.81 percent.
- System
- ElevenLabs Scribe
- Kind
- Cloud service
- Test set
- Multilingual LibriSpeech
- Language
- German
- Speech
- Clean read speech
- Year
- 2025