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Wispr Flow launches Canto, speech model for real-world dictation

Wispr publishes detailed Canto evaluation methodology and results

Wispr Advanced Interfaces Lab released a comprehensive technical post explaining Canto's development and performance. The evaluation compared Canto against Google, OpenAI, AssemblyAI, and Deepgram using a 10-hour dataset of real dictations sampled from Wispr Flow users across applications and use cases. On a 3-hour challenge set with noisy audio, low volume, and short utterances, Canto ranked second behind Gemini 3.1 Pro but led all real-time transcription models tested.

Wispr publishes detailed Canto evaluation methodology and results
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“Speech recognition models have become remarkably good at transcribing clean audio recorded under controlled conditions. But real dictation rarely happens under those conditions.”

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