Fact · Speech recognition
50.58percent word error rate
In the Voxtral paper's Table 5, Whisper large-v3 had a word error rate of 50.58 percent on Common Voice Arabic.
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In the source's own words
“Model ar nl en fr de hi it pt es ... Whisper large-v3 50.58 5.83 22.91 11.33 6.25 46.75 6.81 7.17 5.66”
Voxtral, Mistral AI, arXiv (Audio and Speech Processing), 2025, Table 5 (Common Voice), column ar.
Open the original- What it measures
- Common Voice is speech recorded by volunteers, so its audio is less controlled than read benchmarks. The paper names the version Common Voice 15.1. 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. Arabic is left out of the paper's Common Voice macro-average because every model scores above 45 percent on it.
In the data
A row of Speech Recognition Accuracy: Word Error Rates, as Whisper large-v3, CV Arabic: 50.58 percent.
- System
- Whisper large-v3
- Kind
- Open model
- Test set
- Common Voice
- Language
- Arabic
- Year
- 2025