Japanese ASR Models for IT Terminology [2026]: Benchmarking Whisper, Qwen, and More on Real-World Accuracy
This article presents a first-hand benchmark evaluating nine ASR models on real audio data containing IT company names, service names, and abbreviations. Unlike general-purpose Japanese speech recognition benchmarks, this evaluation takes a practical perspective — asking whether models can correctly transcribe domain-specific terms like "openclaw" and "ARR."