Fact · Speech recognition
9.78percent word error rate
In the Voxtral paper's Table 6, Whisper large-v3 had a word error rate of 9.78 percent on Multilingual LibriSpeech Italian.
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In the source's own words
“Model nl fr de it pt es ... Whisper large-v3 9.19 5.09 5.72 9.78 7.03 3.89”
Voxtral, Mistral AI, arXiv (Audio and Speech Processing), 2025, Table 6 (Multilingual LibriSpeech), column it.
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.
In the data
A row of Speech Recognition Accuracy: Word Error Rates, as Whisper large-v3, MLS Italian: 9.78 percent.
- System
- Whisper large-v3
- Kind
- Open model
- Test set
- Multilingual LibriSpeech
- Language
- Italian
- Speech
- Clean read speech
- Year
- 2025