Fact · Languages and accents
1.8times
On the FLEURS benchmark, Whisper large-v2's French word error rate was about 1.8 times its German rate.
Checked against its source on October 17, 2026
- What it measures
- Calculated from the two FLEURS figures for large-v2 in the same table.
- How it is calculated
- 8.3 / 4.5 = 1.84, rounded to 1.8
- What it does not show
- Both figures come from one benchmark and one model, so the ratio shows the gap on this test only.