Fact · Speech recognition
9.58percent word error rate
In the Voxtral paper's Table 3, Whisper large-v3 had a word error rate of 9.58 percent on VoxPopuli.
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In the source's own words
“Model LS-C LS-O GS VP SB C-4 SPGI E21 10m E22 10m ... Whisper large-v3 1.84 3.66 11.60 9.58 13.14 10.88 3.15 9.88 13.07”
Voxtral, Mistral AI, arXiv (Audio and Speech Processing), 2025, Table 3 (short-form English), VoxPopuli column.
Open the original- What it measures
- Table 3 of the paper gives word error rate for each English test set. The paper calls the Voxtral results macro-averages in its figures, and this row is one test set.
- 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, VoxPopuli English: 9.58 percent.
- System
- Whisper large-v3
- Kind
- Open model
- Test set
- VoxPopuli
- Language
- English
- Speech
- Mixed benchmark
- Year
- 2025