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Open ASR · LS Clean WEREnglish short-form; normalization unversioned · Lower is better
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English short-form word error rate after source text normalization. Lower is better; insertions can raise WER above 100%. Leaderboard publication; individual runner and verification status are not established unless separately attributed.
| # | Model | LS Clean WER | Configuration | API rate / unit | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 51 | meta/muse-voice-transcribemeta | 1.84% WER | meta/muse-voice-transcribeLeaderboard entry | See provider quotes | Result ↗Oct 22, 2026 |
| 52 | nvidia/nemotron-speech-streaming-en-0.6bnvidia | 1.89% WER | nvidia/nemotron-speech-streaming-en-0.6bLeaderboard entry | See provider quotes | Result ↗Oct 22, 2026 |
| 53 | distil-whisper/distil-large-v3.5distil-whisper | 1.94% WER | distil-whisper/distil-large-v3.5Leaderboard entry | See provider quotes | Result ↗Oct 22, 2026 |
| 54 | espnet/owsm_ctc_v4_1Bespnet | 2.11% WER | espnet/owsm_ctc_v4_1BLeaderboard entry | See provider quotes | Result ↗Oct 22, 2026 |
| 55 | facebook/omniASR-CTC-7B-v2facebook | 2.12% WER | facebook/omniASR-CTC-7B-v2Leaderboard entry | See provider quotes | Result ↗Oct 22, 2026 |
| 56 | whisper-large-v3-turboopenai | 2.13% WER | openai/whisper-large-v3-turboLeaderboard entry | $3.33 in / $0.00 out/ 1M tokens · OpenRouter | Result ↗Oct 22, 2026 |
| 57 | Edge0/Audio8-ASR-0.1BEdge0 | 2.71% WER | Edge0/Audio8-ASR-0.1BLeaderboard entry | See provider quotes | Result ↗Oct 22, 2026 |
| 58 | nvidia/nemotron-3.5-asr-streaming-0.6bnvidia | 2.83% WER | nvidia/nemotron-3.5-asr-streaming-0.6bLeaderboard entry | See provider quotes | Result ↗Oct 22, 2026 |
| 59 | abr-ai/niagara-84m-batch.enabr-ai | 3.09% WER | abr-ai/niagara-84m-batch.enLeaderboard entry | See provider quotes | Result ↗Oct 22, 2026 |
| 60 | abr-ai/niagara-38m-batch.enabr-ai | 3.81% WER | abr-ai/niagara-38m-batch.enLeaderboard entry | See provider quotes | Result ↗Oct 22, 2026 |
| 61 | google/gemma-4-E4B-itgoogle | 3.85% WER | google/gemma-4-E4B-itLeaderboard entry | See provider quotes | Result ↗Oct 22, 2026 |
| 62 | abr-ai/niagara-19m-batch.enabr-ai | 4.74% WER | abr-ai/niagara-19m-batch.enLeaderboard entry | See provider quotes | Result ↗Oct 22, 2026 |
| 63 | google/gemma-4-E2B-itgoogle | 5.53% WER | google/gemma-4-E2B-itLeaderboard entry | See provider quotes | Result ↗Oct 22, 2026 |
| 64 | abr-ai/niagara-9m-batch.enabr-ai | 6.45% WER | abr-ai/niagara-9m-batch.enLeaderboard entry | See provider quotes | Result ↗Oct 22, 2026 |
| 65 | google/gemma-4-12B-itgoogle | 8.19% WER | google/gemma-4-12B-itLeaderboard entry | See provider quotes | Result ↗Oct 22, 2026 |