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We Aim For Disruption
Back in 2020 we set out to disrupt the game, launching a speech recognition engine that raised transcription accuracy substantially and cost less at the same time.
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4.6 million minutes
That is how much audio we have processed to date — more than eight years of sound, played end to end without stopping. And it is still counting.
Competition
88.7% accuracyGoogle Chirp on the Antena 1 news recordings — and 77.6% once the speech is unscripted.
VS
95.6% accuracyVatis on the same recordings, the highest of the seven systems tested — and 89.8% on those same podcasts.
University of Bucharest, arXiv:2603.02368 (opens in a new tab) — the full table is below.
Independent benchmark
Independently benchmarked against Microsoft, Google and Whisper
Researchers at the University of Bucharest scored seven transcription systems on over 126 hours of Romanian speech. Vatis finished top two of the seven overall — first on Antena 1 news and first on podcasts, and more accurate than Google on every single set.
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Accurate on Antena 1 news
95.6% on the Antena 1 news set — the highest of all seven systems tested, ahead of Microsoft, Google and every Whisper model.
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Accurate on podcasts
89.8% on podcasts — first again on unscripted conversation, and more than 12 points clearer than Google on the same audio.
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Domains ahead of Google
Vatis transcribed more accurately than Google's Chirp on every set in the study, from studio news to overlapping film dialogue.
| Model | In-domain | Out-of-distribution | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ProTV — Broadcast news | Antena 1 — Broadcast news | Audiobooks — Read literary prose | Films — Overlapping film dialogue | Stories — Children's stories | Podcasts — Spontaneous conversation | |
| Wav2Vec 2.0 | 27.7 | 25.6 | 40.8 | 75.4 | 54.1 | 36.3 |
| Whisper Small | 31.6 | 26.8 | 40.0 | 60.0 | 41.1 | 31.9 |
| Whisper Large | 12.3 | 5.9 | 14.8 | 27.3 — best in column | 10.9 — best in column | 11.7 |
| Whisper Small + Echo | 9.4 | 10.1 | 18.8 | 54.1 | 21.0 | 21.6 |
| Microsoft Transcribe | 2.9 — best in column | 4.8 | 10.6 — best in column | 31.1 | 17.6 | 11.5 |
| Google Chirp (USM) | 12.1 | 11.3 | 20.2 | 37.6 | 22.4 | 22.4 |
| Vatis | 5.2 | 4.4 — best in column | 13.0 | 31.2 | 16.0 | 10.2 — best in column |
Figures are Word Error Rate (%) — the share of words a system gets wrong, so lower is better. It is the metric the paper reports, kept here so the table can be checked against it line for line; the headline numbers above are its flip side, accuracy. Vatis at 4.4 WER on Antena 1 is 95.6% of words correct. Every score is zero-shot: no system was tuned on these recordings before it was measured.
Outlined values are the best score in their column.
Vatis is a Romanian commercial ASR service known for its strong transcription accuracy in Romanian. Its models are trained on proprietary data and optimized for production use.
Considering that for almost 4 years we have transcribed by hand legal debates and conferences at JURIDICE.ro, Vatis Tech came as a rescue.
We like how easy the platform is to use, the fact that the transcripts are accurate and it takes a few minutes for them to be ready.
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