Speech recognition for Amedia
Nynorsk has a measured baseline. Northern Sámi has specialist models worth testing. Kven needs authorised evaluation data before we can make a defensible performance claim.
These results describe separate tests, not the current transcription demo. They are not a cross-language ranking.
Nynorsk
Measured locally
Norwegian speech
to Nynorsk text
15.64% WER1
NB Samtale · conversation
10.89% WER · Common Voice read speech
Scored: 246 conversation clips;
322 read-speech clips.
Limit: Short-clip development tests, not newsroom validation or proof of best overall performance. Speaker coverage is limited. We do not know whether training included this material.
Next: Test the same setup on representative newsroom audio with permission and editor review.
Northern
Sámi
Published evidence
Lule and Southern Sámi
not assessed
32.3% WER2
2025 study · 1-hour test
Read and spontaneous speech.
A published result, not our own test.
Limit: Newer specialist models need testing.3 We have no local results. Access to evaluation audio is limited.
Next: Obtain audio with permission and fluent reviewers. Compare models on the same test.
Kven
Not established
Kven-specific evidence
required
No verified score to quote
In the evidence reviewed.
Ruija offers interview audio and transcripts; access is application-based.4
Limit: No authorised Kven test dataset is established for this project. Ruija commercial evaluation and export rights need confirmation. Finnish or Meänkieli scores are not Kven scores.
Next: Agree access or commission consented recordings and human Kven transcripts, then test candidates.
Next: a newsroom evaluation.
Test suitability before committing to deployment.
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Agree the material
Languages, programmes, audio conditions, rights and transcript conventions.
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Test consistently
Freeze human references. Separate tuning from evaluation. Retain failures.
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Judge newsroom value
Correction time, names, numbers, negation, omissions, latency and cost.
Deliverable: A recommendation per language—pilot, investigate further, or stop—with evidence and dependencies.