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25.5percent word error rate
On the CHiME6 test set, Whisper Large V2 had a word error rate of 25.5 percent.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“CHiME6 65.8 25.5 61.2 VoxPopuli En 17.9 7.3 59.2”
Robust Speech Recognition via Large-Scale Weak Supervision, Alec Radford et al., arXiv (eess.AS), 2022, Table 2, effective robustness across datasets.
Open the original- What it measures
- Same table and column order as the LibriSpeech Clean figure.
- What it does not show
- The passage quoted gives the number without describing the recording conditions.
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