Fact · Speech recognition
6.32percent word error rate
In the Voxtral paper's Table 2, Voxtral Small Offline DPO had a macro-average word error rate of 6.32 percent across the English short-form test sets.
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In the source's own words
“Voxtral Small Offline DPO 87.29 ± 1.65 4.19 ± 0.04 6.32”
Voxtral, Mistral AI, arXiv (Audio and Speech Processing), 2025, Table 2, En Short WER column.
Open the original- What it measures
- Table 2 compares Voxtral checkpoints after supervised finetuning and after preference training. The English short-form figure is a macro-average across its test sets.
- 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.
In the data
A row of Speech Recognition Accuracy: Word Error Rates, as Voxtral Small Offline DPO, English: 6.32 percent.
- System
- Voxtral Small Offline DPO
- Kind
- Open model
- Test set
- English short-form average (Voxtral paper)
- Language
- English
- Speech
- Mixed benchmark
- Year
- 2025