Comparison of Whisper's translation of Russian to a human translation

[kalevleetaru]

For those interested in how well Whisper's English translation of Russian television news, including speakers speaking over one another, compares with human translation of the same speech, here is a five minute clip from Russian tv news comprised of 9 separate clips that compares Whisper's translation with human translation:

https://blog.gdeltproject.org/comparing-human-vs-machine-transcription-and-translation-of-a-russian-television-news-broadcast/

The end results is that they are extremely similar, with only five significant differences, two of which change the underlying meaning.