WenetSpeech Test_Net
Models transcribe Mandarin internet speech from the Test_Net set. The baseline score is mixture error rate, counting Mandarin characters and English words.
One track of WenetSpeech. The WenetSpeech record keeps lab scores that combine tracks. Authors call the baseline metric mixture error rate. Lab cards may instead name character or word error rate.
- Made by
- Northwestern Polytechnical University (ASLP@NPU), Mobvoi and others
- Released
- October 2021
- Kind
- Speech recognition and translation
- Level
- Everyday
- Scored
- Checked automatically
- Answers
- Short answer
- Tasks
- All public
In the authors’ words
In this paper, we present WenetSpeech, a multi-domain Mandarin corpus consisting of 10000+ hours high-quality labeled speech, 2400+ hours weakly labeled speech, and about 10000 hours unlabeled speech, with 22400+ hours in total. We collect the data from YouTube and Podcast, which covers a variety of speaking styles, scenarios, domains, topics, and noisy conditions. An optical character recognition (OCR) based method is introduced to generate the audio/text segmentation candidates for the YouTube data on its corresponding video captions, while a high-quality ASR transcription system is used to generate audio/text pair candidates for the Podcast data. Then we propose a novel end-to-end label error detection approach to further validate and filter the candidates. We also provide three manually labelled high-quality test sets along with WenetSpeech for evaluation – Dev for cross-validation purpose in training, Test_Net, collected from Internet for matched test, and Test_Meeting, recorded from real meetings for more challenging mismatched test. Baseline systems trained with WenetSpeech are provided for three popular speech recognition toolkits, namely Kaldi, ESPnet, and WeNet, and recognition results on the three test sets are also provided as benchmarks. To the best of our knowledge, WenetSpeech is the current largest open-sourced Mandarin speech corpus with transcriptions, which benefits research on production-level speech recognition.
ESPNet tops the leaderboard with 8.90%
Best score per entry from the benchmark's own leaderboard, read on November 12th, 2026. Where a model ran with several settings or harnesses, we keep its best. Names in gray aren't in our model list: fine-tunes, agent systems, products and older models. They don't count toward leaders.
- 1 ESPNet 8.90%
- 2 WeNet 9.70%
- 3 Kaldi 12.8%
Source: Official WenetSpeech Test_Net leaderboard
| # | Entry | Score | Setting | Date | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ESPNet | 8.90% | ESPNet | Official leaderboard | |
| 2 | WeNet | 9.70% | WeNet | Official leaderboard | |
| 3 | Kaldi | 12.8% | Kaldi | Official leaderboard |
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We read the headline results of 522 launch posts from 52 labs, and none of them list this benchmark.
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