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FREE REPORT

The 2024

State of ASR


Welcome to the 2024 State of Automatic Speech Recognition!

3Play Media conducts annual research to evaluate the performance of top ASR engines in captioning and transcription. 

The research assesses ASR accuracy across different industries and explores the relationship between error rate measurement, transcription styles, and specific use cases. The report aims to help users make informed decisions when selecting and using ASR engines.
 
Explore key stats from this year's report below and download the full report!

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PROCESSED IN 2024:

700 video files

158 hours of content

1.3 million words

eLearning was the best-performing market
with the lowest average error rates.


  • Formatted Error Rate = 13.4%
  • Word Error Rate = 4.07%
Bar graph depicting a 4.07% word error rate and 13.4% formatted error rate.
three people collaborate with a remote workflow

3Play's post-processing was shown to
relatively improve error rates by as much as

10%

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