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Why Whisper "scores 8% WER" on dictation, and what actually fixed it

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I record dictation: notes to myself, commit messages, short specs, with a lot of product and library names in them. I ran faster-whisper large-v3-turbo over 101 of my own clips and got 8.5% word error rate . That sounded bad, so I read every error. Most of it wasn't what I expected. Setup, so you c…

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  1. 2026-10-06 19:28 · DEV Community — AI
    Why Whisper "scores 8% WER" on dictation, and what actually fixed it

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