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Best speech recognition API should probably be judged by error type, not leaderboard rank

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Best speech recognition API should probably be judged by error type, not leaderboard rank I don’t think “best speech recognition API” can be answered by leaderboard rank alone. WER is useful, but it flattens errors that do not have the same cost. Missing “uh” is not the same as missing “don’t.” A b…

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  1. 2026-09-08 01:53 · r/LanguageTechnology
    Best speech recognition API should probably be judged by error type, not leaderboard rank

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