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| Audio Condition | WER (English US) | WER (Japanese) | WER (Spanish) | |----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------| | Studio microphone, no background noise | 4.2% | 7.1% | 5.8% | | On-location interview, mild traffic | 11.5% | 14.3% | 12.9% | | Group discussion, overlapping speech | 24% | 29% | 27% | | Strong accents (e.g., Scottish English) | 18% | N/A | N/A | Adobe Speech to Text v2.1.6 para Premiere Pro 2...

| Task | v2.0 (older) | v2.1.6 | Improvement | |------|-------------|--------|--------------| | Transcription time (GPU enabled) | 12 min | 7 min | | | Transcription time (CPU only) | 32 min | 28 min | 12% faster | | Multi-speaker labeling (2 speakers) | 2 min | 1.2 min | 40% faster | | Export to .SRT | 10 sec | 6 sec | 40% faster | Whisper achieves 2–3% lower WER in noisy conditions

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