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xAIX · Sep 18, 2026 · official

Speech Recognition Error Rates by Category

xAI's small multiples drew 72.8K views on X: 0.6x its median post and #450 of 1,162 AI chart posts we hold by views. Read Oct 12, 2026.

Word error rates across four speech categories

XDataSmall multiplesGrok VoiceAll xAI modelsGrok Voice Transcriber 2.0Grok Voice Transcriber 1.0Gemini 3.5 TranscriberMAL-Trancriber-2ElevenLabs Scribex v2Deepgram Nova-3Whisper Large v3
Published by xAI on X, Sep 18, 2026. Source: x.com
59/ 100

ViralChart score

Reached and resonated

More views and a higher engagement rate than the median post: it travelled and people acted on it.

#464 of 1,162 AI chart posts we hold · #20 of 23 xAI posts. Score = views 40%, likes 30%, engagement rate 15%, save rate 15%, each as a percentile of every AI chart post we hold.

Our read

It sits in the Reached and resonated quadrant, at #464 of 1,162 AI chart posts.

Its 0.048% save rate sits at the 27th percentile among AI chart posts, below the 0.076% median.

The account posted 2 posts that day, and this one ranked #2 of 2 by views.

At 72.8K views it reached 0.56x xAI's 131K median, ranking #16 of 23 xAI posts.

2posts from xAI that day

Part of a run of 2 posts on Sep 18, 2026. This one was #2 of 2 by views that day.

2.7xthe median small multiples post

Across 43 small multiples posts we hold, the median gets 27K views.

bottom 27%save rate

0.048% of viewers bookmarked it to come back to. The median post gets 0.076%.

top 28%engagement rate

0.99% of viewers liked, reposted, quoted or replied. The median post gets 0.73%.

Public X numbers from our read on Oct 12, 2026. Peers: 1,162 AI chart posts we hold and 23 from xAI.

Where it sits

Reach against resonance

Each dot is a post. Right is more views, up is a higher engagement rate. The lines are the medians, so the four corners are the four kinds of post.

Among 1,162 AI chart posts we hold

Score #464 of 1,162

Views72.8K#450top 39%
Likes603#394top 34%
Engagement rate0.99%#324top 28%
Save rate0.048%#848bottom 27%

Among 23 xAI posts

Score #20 of 23

Views72.8K#16bottom 33%
Likes603#17bottom 28%
Engagement rate0.99%#9top 37%
Save rate0.048%#10top 41%

Growth

One read so far

Views72.8K
Age at our read24 days
Views per day of life3Kviews divided by days since it was posted

Dots are our reads. The dotted line from the day it was posted to our first read is a gap, not data.

xAI's posts over time

Every post from this account we hold, by date and views. This one is marked; the line is the running median of the last 10.

News · Sep 18, 2026

xAI posts speech recognition error rates by category

A small multiples chart of word error rates across four speech categories drew 72.8K views and a 0.99% engagement rate.

What happened

xAI published a small multiples chart on September 18, 2026, showing word error rates across four speech categories. It was one of 2 posts from the account that day, alongside a post on speech transcription accuracy vs. price.

The numbers

The post reached 72.8K views, ranking #450 of 1,162 AI chart posts by views and #20 of 23 xAI posts by score. Its 0.99% engagement rate placed it in the Reached and resonated quadrant.

The lesson

A 0.048% save rate, at the 27th percentile among AI chart posts, trails the 0.076% median. The chart shows word error rates across four speech categories, but readers saved it less than the median AI chart post.

What it means

At #20 of 23 xAI posts by score and #16 of 23 by views, this chart post sits below the account's own 131K median views. The 0.56x reach ratio against xAI's median marks a gap for the publisher's chart posts.

Written by ViralChart from public numbers read on Oct 12, 2026. Every number is checked against our data before it is shown.

Data and API

32 points read off this chart

Estimated from the image 54%
SeriesGroupValueRead
Grok Voice 2.0Telephony (8 kHz)7.1 %printed
Grok Voice Transcribe 1.0Telephony (8 kHz)10.6 %printed
Gemini 3.5 TranscribeTelephony (8 kHz)15.9 %printed
MAL-TranScribe-2Telephony (8 kHz)9.3 %printed
ElevenLabs Scribe v2Telephony (8 kHz)12.6 %printed
Deepgram Nova-3Telephony (8 kHz)12.4 %printed
Whisper Large v3Telephony (8 kHz)15.8 %printed
Grok Voice Transcriber 1.0Telephony Customer support (8 kHz calls) - English10.6 %printed
Gemini 3.5 TranscriberTelephony Customer support (8 kHz calls) - English15.9 %printed
M4-Trancribe-2Telephony Customer support (8 kHz calls) - English9.3 %printed
ElevenLabs Scribex v2Telephony Customer support (8 kHz calls) - English12.6 %printed
Grok Voice Transcriber 2.0Conversational Conversations with Grok - English3.3 %printed

Showing 12 of 32. All points, the redraw and the maker

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