Fact · Languages and accents
22.0BLEU points
On the Fleurs read-speech test, Whisper large-v2 scored 22.0 BLEU when translating Hindi speech into English.
Checked against its source on October 17, 2026
In the source's own words
“Whisper large-v2 34.6 23.7 80.2 23.3 18.7 19.6 22.1 24.4 32.2 27.9 16.2 0.4 21.8 22.0”
Robust Speech Recognition via Large-Scale Weak Supervision (full text), Alec Radford et al., OpenAI (arXiv), 2022, Table 14, BLEU scores on Fleurs (speech translation).
Open the original (DOI 10.48550/arXiv.2212.04356)- What it measures
- The Hindi value is the last column of the Whisper large-v2 row in the table, and it is the same row used for the German and Spanish figures.
- What it does not show
- Read sentences with one reference translation. The same model also transcribes Hindi less accurately than Spanish or German, so the translation starts from a weaker transcript.