To more accurately evaluate the system without depending on text-based metrics, we extended our text-less metric into BLASER 2.0, which now enables evaluation across speech and text units with similar accuracy compared to its predecessor. When tested for robustness, our system performs better against background noises and speaker variations in speech-to-text tasks (average improvements of 37% and 48%, respectively) compared to the current state-of-the-art model.
SeamlessM4T also outperforms previous state-of-the-art competitors.
https://github.com/facebookresearch/seamless_communication/b...
I don't really know how the metrics they list compare to whisper, I'm very curious if these are fast enough for realtime speech2text? I think whisper technically could but it was difficult to do or something like that?