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Benchmarking Automatic Speech Recognition Tools for Iberian Languages

Fernando López, Pablo Gómez, David Solans, Paulo Villegas +1 more

Published

Sep 29, 2026

Citations

0

Trust level

Low

Usefulness score

0/100 (Low)

Extraction confidence

35% (Low)

Derived from extracted protocol signals and abstract evidence.

Rater population

Not reported

Signals refreshed

Sep 29, 2026

Should you rely on this paper?

This paper is adjacent to HFEPX scope and is best used for background context, not as a primary protocol reference.

Use this as background context only. Do not make protocol decisions from this page alone.

Best use

Background context only

Use if you need

A secondary eval reference to pair with stronger protocol papers.

What to verify

Validate the evaluation procedure and quality controls in the full paper before operational use.

Main weakness

This paper looks adjacent to evaluation work, but not like a strong protocol reference.

Human feedback signal
Not explicit
Not explicit in abstract metadata
Evaluation signal
Detected
Eval setup described
Usefulness for eval research
0/100
Adjacent candidate

Treat as adjacent context, not a core eval-method reference.

Abstract

Comprehensive evaluations of automatic speech recognition (ASR) for Iberian languages remain limited, and low-resource languages, biases, and efficiency trade-offs are underexplored. We benchmark eleven systems, ten open-weight models and one commercial API, across five Iberian languages (Basque, Catalan, Galician, Portuguese, Spanish), with German and Turkish as controls. Evaluation uses an 85-hour dataset covering read speech, broadcast media, and audiobooks, assessing accuracy and efficiency via word error rate (WER) and real-time factors (RTF/RTFx). Results show no single model dominates: accuracy, efficiency, and language coverage present clear trade-offs. Low-resource languages, especially Basque, degrade significantly, highlighting the role of training coverage. We observe consistent sex disparities across most systems, highlighting fairness challenges in multilingual ASR. Overall, the benchmark provides practical guidance for real-world model selection.

What we could verify

These are the protocol signals we could actually recover from the available paper metadata. Use them to decide whether this paper is worth deeper reading.

Human Feedback Types

missing

None explicit

No explicit feedback protocol extracted.

"Comprehensive evaluations of automatic speech recognition (ASR) for Iberian languages remain limited, and low-resource languages, biases, and efficiency trade-offs are underexplored."

Evaluation Modes

partial

Automatic Metrics

Includes extracted eval setup.

"Comprehensive evaluations of automatic speech recognition (ASR) for Iberian languages remain limited, and low-resource languages, biases, and efficiency trade-offs are underexplored."

Quality Controls

missing

Not reported

No explicit QC controls found.

"Comprehensive evaluations of automatic speech recognition (ASR) for Iberian languages remain limited, and low-resource languages, biases, and efficiency trade-offs are underexplored."

Benchmarks / Datasets

missing

Not extracted

No benchmark anchors detected.

"Comprehensive evaluations of automatic speech recognition (ASR) for Iberian languages remain limited, and low-resource languages, biases, and efficiency trade-offs are underexplored."

Reported Metrics

partial

Accuracy, Error rate, Wer, Jailbreak success rate

Useful for evaluation criteria comparison.

"Evaluation uses an 85-hour dataset covering read speech, broadcast media, and audiobooks, assessing accuracy and efficiency via word error rate (WER) and real-time factors (RTF/RTFx)."

Benchmarks and datasets

No benchmark or dataset names were extracted from the available abstract.

Reported metrics

accuracyerror ratewerjailbreak success rate
Human feedback details
Uses human feedback
No
Feedback types
None
Rater population
Not reported
Expertise required
Multilingual
Evaluation details
Evaluation modes
Automatic Metrics
Agentic eval
None
Quality controls
Not reported
Evidence quality
Low
Use this page as
Background context only

Research brief

Metadata summary

Comprehensive evaluations of automatic speech recognition (ASR) for Iberian languages remain limited, and low-resource languages, biases, and efficiency trade-offs are underexplored.

Based on abstract + metadata only. Check the source paper before making high-confidence protocol decisions.

Key takeaways

  • Comprehensive evaluations of automatic speech recognition (ASR) for Iberian languages remain limited, and low-resource languages, biases, and efficiency trade-offs are underexplored.
  • We benchmark eleven systems, ten open-weight models and one commercial API, across five Iberian languages (Basque, Catalan, Galician, Portuguese, Spanish), with German and Turkish as controls.
  • Evaluation uses an 85-hour dataset covering read speech, broadcast media, and audiobooks, assessing accuracy and efficiency via word error rate (WER) and real-time factors (RTF/RTFx).

Researcher actions

  • Compare this paper against nearby papers in the same arXiv category before using it for protocol decisions.
  • Validate inferred eval signals (Automatic metrics, Tool-use evaluation) against the full paper.
  • Use related-paper links to find stronger protocol-specific references.

Caveats

  • Generated from abstract + metadata only; no PDF parsing.
  • Signals below are heuristic and may miss details reported outside the abstract.

Recommended queries

Contribution summary

  • Comprehensive evaluations of automatic speech recognition (ASR) for Iberian languages remain limited, and low-resource languages, biases, and efficiency trade-offs are underexplored.
  • We benchmark eleven systems, ten open-weight models and one commercial API, across five Iberian languages (Basque, Catalan, Galician, Portuguese, Spanish), with German and Turkish as controls.
  • Evaluation uses an 85-hour dataset covering read speech, broadcast media, and audiobooks, assessing accuracy and efficiency via word error rate (WER) and real-time factors (RTF/RTFx).

Why it matters for eval

  • Comprehensive evaluations of automatic speech recognition (ASR) for Iberian languages remain limited, and low-resource languages, biases, and efficiency trade-offs are underexplored.
  • Evaluation uses an 85-hour dataset covering read speech, broadcast media, and audiobooks, assessing accuracy and efficiency via word error rate (WER) and real-time factors (RTF/RTFx).

Researcher checklist

  • Human feedback protocol is explicit

    No explicit human feedback protocol detected.

  • Evaluation mode is explicit

    Detected: Automatic Metrics

  • Quality control reporting appears

    No calibration/adjudication/IAA control explicitly detected.

  • Benchmark or dataset anchors are present

    No benchmark/dataset anchor extracted from abstract.

  • Metric reporting is present

    Detected: accuracy, error rate, wer, jailbreak success rate