1000 hours of English speech from audiobooks. Standard benchmark for automatic speech recognition with clean and noisy test splits.
Wer is the reported evaluation metric for LibriSpeech. Codesota tracks published model scores on this metric so readers can compare state-of-the-art results across sources and model families.
Lower is better
Word Error Rate on noisier/accented speech (lower is better)
Lower is better
| Rank | Model | Trust | Score | Year | Links | Edit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Universal-1 | verified | 3.10 | 2024 | Paper ↗ | Edit result |
| 02 | Parakeet TDT 0.6B v2 | paper | 3.19 | 2025 | Source ↗ | Edit result |
| 03 | wav2vec 2.0 Large (960h) | verified | 3.30 | 2020 | Paper ↗ | Edit result |
| 04 | Canary 1B v2 | paper | 3.56 | 2025 | Source ↗ | Edit result |
| 05 | Parakeet TDT 0.6B v3 | paper | 3.59 | 2025 | Source ↗ | Edit result |
| 06 | Whisper Large v3 | paper | 3.60 | 2024 | Source ↗ | Edit result |
| 07 | HuBERT Large (LS-960) | verified | 3.60 | 2021 | Paper ↗ | Edit result |
| 08 | Canary-1B | verified | 3.80 | 2026 | Source ↗ | Edit result |
| 09 | Voxtral Mini 3B | paper | 4.08 | 2025 | Source ↗ | Edit result |
| 10 | Google USM | verified | 4.10 | 2023 | Paper ↗ | Edit result |
| 11 | Parakeet-CTC-1.1B | verified | 4.20 | 2026 | Source ↗ | Edit result |
| 12 | Whisper Large v2 | verified | 5.20 | 2026 | Source ↗ | Edit result |
| 13 | Pulse STT | verified | 5.83 | 2026 | Source ↗ | Edit result |
| 14 | Phi-4-multimodal-instruct | paper | 5.97 | 2025 | Source ↗ | Edit result |
Wer Test Clean is the reported evaluation metric for LibriSpeech. Codesota tracks published model scores on this metric so readers can compare state-of-the-art results across sources and model families.
Lower is better
| Rank | Model | Trust | Score | Year | Links | Edit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Whisper Large v2 | verified | 2.70 | 2022 | Paper ↗ | Edit result |
| 02 | wav2vec 2.0 Large | paper | 2.90 | 2024 | Source ↗ | Edit result |
| 03 | Pulse STT | verified | 3.22 | 2026 | Source ↗ | Edit result |