Jargonic Sets New SOTA for Japanese ASR

Jargonic Sets New Standards for Japanese ASR 日本語で話そう。Jargonic is ready. Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems often excel in lab conditions but struggle in real-world enterprise environments—especially when it comes to linguistically complex languages like Japanese. Unlike English, Japanese doesn’t use whitespace (the spaces between words in a sentence) to separate words, making Word Error Rate (WER) less relevant as a benchmark. Instead, Character Error Rate (CER) becomes the primary metric for evaluating transcription quality. On top of that, Japanese blends three diverse writing systems-–hiragana, katakana, and kanji–, with hundreds of honorific structures, and shifting pronunciations based on context. For example, the word “three” sounds different when referring to people, flat objects, or animals. Combined with dense domain-specific jargon, these intricacies make Japanese one of the most challenging languages for ASR to master. With the release of Jargonic V2, aiOla contin ... Read full article.