Japanese IT-Domain ASR Benchmark 2026: Granite 4.0 vs Qwen3 vs Whisper
We tested 9 ASR models on Japanese IT jargon — SaaS names, abbreviations, company terms. Benchmarks include Granite 4.0, Qwen3-ASR, Cohere Transcribe, and Whisper variants.
Are WER and CER Not Enough? Re-evaluating Japanese ASR with Noun and Proper Noun F1 Scores
Japanese speech recognition is more challenging than many other languages due to the wide variety of kanji and proper noun representations. This primary benchmark article implements a morphological-analysis-based F1 score evaluation using Sudachi to quantify "kanji and proper noun recognition accuracy" that WER and CER struggle to capture, and re-evaluates 9 open-source ASR models.