Fact · Languages and accents
88.9percent word error rate
On the FLEURS benchmark, Whisper large-v2 had a word error rate of 88.9 percent for Hausa.
Checked against its source on October 17, 2026
In the source's own words
“Whisper large-v2 4.5 12.5 4.2 3.0 21.9 32.9 9.7 13.8 8.3 15.4 102.7 88.9 27.1 21.5”
Robust Speech Recognition via Large-Scale Weak Supervision (full text), Alec Radford et al., OpenAI (arXiv), 2022, Appendix D.2.4, Table 13.
Open the original (DOI 10.48550/arXiv.2212.04356)- What it measures
- The FLEURS table lists word error rates for each language. The row here is for Whisper large-v2 with Hausa in the twelfth column.
- What it does not show
- The number describes the paper's FLEURS test, read aloud and transcribed by professionals, not every Hausa recording.