Free Turkish transcription is a good test of suffix handling. Published tests of others on the earlier large-v2 model report a word error rate of 8.4 for Turkish; no large-v3 figure was found for Potok. Choose a clip with long words and check each ending.
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Key facts
- The 8.4 is from published tests of others on large-v2 and is not our measurement.
- Turkish stacks suffixes onto a root, so a single word can carry what other languages need a phrase for.
- The dotted and dotless i are different letters, and mixing them changes the word.
- Because words are long, a word error rate punishes one wrong letter heavily.
What a transcript looks like
[00:00] Speaker 1: Toplantıya başlayalım. Önce geçen haftanın sonuçlarını gözden geçireceğiz, sonra sonraki adımları planlayacağız.Meaning in English: Let's start the meeting. First, we'll review last week's results, then plan the next steps.
Written by us to show the script and the layout of a transcript. It is not the output of the recognition engine.
Published quality
| Language | Verdict | Published result | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turkish (Türkçe) | Recommended | word error rate 8.4% (large-v2, FLEURS) Whisper paper | Published tests show a low error rate for this language. No large-v3 figure was found; the figure is from the earlier large-v2 model. |
These numbers come from published tests by other people, not from tests by Potok. Your own audio, with its noise, accents and microphone, will differ.
How to do it
- Pick suffix-heavy speech. A clip with long words, such as a formal talk, shows how the tool treats endings.
- Open the bot. Open @potok_now_bot in Telegram and send the clip as a voice message, an audio file or a video.
- Check the two i letters. Look at words with the dotted and dotless i and confirm which one was written.
- Compare the endings. Read the final syllables of long words against the audio.
- Export and store. Save TXT, DOCX, PDF, SRT or VTT. Files up to 2 GB are accepted.
| Feature | Details |
|---|---|
| Where it works | Telegram bot @potok_now_bot; large files go through the bot's mini app |
| File size | Up to 2 GB |
| Export | TXT, MD, DOCX, PDF, SRT, VTT |
| Speakers and time | Speaker labels and timestamps can be switched on |
| Languages | About 30 languages with good published results; a few more with warnings |
| Translation | The transcript is not translated into another language |
| Dictation | A separate Potok desktop app lets you dictate text into any program; it recognises Russian speech |
Common mistakes
| Mistake | What happens | Fix |
|---|---|---|
| Treating a wrong suffix as a small slip | It changes tense, person or case. | Count every changed ending. |
| Overlooking the dotless i | It makes a different word. | Search the result for it. |
| Reading only the start | Long words in the middle get less attention. | Read to the end. |
| Counting every case of a changed suffix once | Repeated errors in the same verb pattern show a weakness you should note. | Group similar mistakes and look for patterns. |
| Testing one dialect only | Accents vary across regions. | Add a second speaker. |
More
See the full list of languages, the tools and the glossary.
Frequently asked questions
Does Turkish do well in published tests?
The earlier large-v2 model scores 8.4 in word error rate.
Why is the figure for large-v2?
No large-v3 figure was found, so the earlier model is the one quoted.
Is it your own figure?
No. It comes from published tests of others.
Can the result come back in English?
No. The transcript stays in the language of the recording.
What file size is accepted?
Files up to 2 GB are accepted, and a long result arrives as a file you can save.
Sources
Each source was opened by hand on the date shown. Pages change, so open the source if a detail matters to you.
- Word error rate (Wikipedia), Wikipedia · checked
- Whisper speech recognition system (Wikipedia), Wikipedia · checked
- Whisper paper, Table 13 (large-v2 on FLEURS) · checked
Try it on your own recording
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