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title: "Khmer speech-to-text gets usable on commodity hardware"
description: "Word error rates on conversational Khmer are down again. We ran the two open models against our own call recordings."
canonical_url: "https://flexitech.io/en/article/khmer-speech-to-text-on-commodity-hardware"
publisher: "Flexitech Digest"
author: "Flexitech Digest"
section: "Khmer tech"
date_published: "2026-09-06T02:29:24.326Z"
date_modified: "2026-09-09T02:29:26.190Z"
language: en
read_time_minutes: 6
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# Khmer speech-to-text gets usable on commodity hardware

Word error rates on conversational Khmer are down again. We ran the two open models against our own call recordings.

_By Flexitech Digest · 6 Sep 2026_

## What to know

- Word error rates on clean conversational Khmer are now low enough for search and indexing.
- Not yet low enough for unattended transcription.
- Both open models run on commodity hardware.

We tested both open Khmer speech models against a set of our own support calls. Word error rates on clean audio are now low enough for search and indexing, though not yet for unattended transcription.

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