Seventeen Arabic Dialects, No Universal Speech-Recognition Winner
TL;DR for operators A speech-recognition system ranked first across Arabic dialects may not be the strongest option for a particular regional market. The Almieyar benchmark evaluates 12 existing transcription systems on 13.7 hours of newly recorded speech across 17 dialects. GPT-4o-transcribe leads overall with 34.9% word error rate (WER), but Voxtral-Mini-4B records lower WER on Gulf Arabic, while SeamlessM4T-v2 leads on Egyptian Arabic. ...