Moonshine MN — Mongolian Speech-to-Text Benchmark
Real results from the Moonshine MN Batch API (enhanced operating point, language mn) evaluated across 4 Mongolian datasets and 265 audio samples. Every number below is measured — not marketing. WER, speed, and pricing are shown as-is, brutally honest.
265/265 samples transcribed · 100% success rate
Lower is better · across 265 samples
Pricing
Moonshine MN list pricing for batch transcription. No discounts, no negotiated rates applied — the raw per-minute rate.
Pricing source: Moonshine MN public pricing. Duudlaga Flow is shown for context only — this page isolates Moonshine MN so the number is not padded by our own product.
WER & CER by dataset
Word and character error rates per dataset. Lower is better — and these are the real Moonshine MN numbers, which are weak on Common Voice 24.
Dataset summary
Aggregate accuracy, speed, and timing for each dataset.
| Dataset | Source | Samples | Success | WER | CER | Accuracy | Speed | Audio (s) | Proc (s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Common Voice 24 (MN) | Hugging Face → | 59 | 59/59 | 17.3% | 11.8% | 82.7% | 7.37× | 330.6s | 44.9s |
| Shunya Labs Mongolian Speech | Hugging Face → | 60 | 60/60 | 94.3% | 72.6% | 5.7% | 10.04× | 645.1s | 64.2s |
| Common Voice 20 (MN) | Hugging Face → | 54 | 54/54 | 2.7% | 1.8% | 97.3% | 7.33× | 269.8s | 36.8s |
| Modern Voice | — | 92 | 92/92 | 95.4% | 74.1% | 4.6% | 8.25× | 603.8s | 73.2s |
WER vs speed — per sample
Each dot is one audio sample. The sweet spot is the bottom-left (low error, fast). Moonshine MN sits high on error for many Common Voice 24 samples.
Per-sample results
Ground truth shown verbatim in the Expected column. The result column highlights only the words Moonshine MN got wrong, in red — no strikethrough/swap gymnastics, just the mistakes.
| # | Audio | Sample | Dataset | Expected (ground truth) | Moonshine MN result | WER | CER | I/D/S |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | btsee_0001 | Common Voice 24 (MN) | Гэхдээ амьсгал хураахаасаа өмнө танд мэдэж байгаагаа хэлье. | гэхдээ амьсгал хураахаасаа өмнө танд мэдэж байгаагаа хэлье | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0/0/0 | |
| 2 | btsee_0002 | Common Voice 24 (MN) | Надад заяасан аз жаргал гэдэг ердөө гуравхан сарын хугацаатай байсан гэж үү? | надад заяасан аз жаргал гэдэг ердөө гуравхан сарын хугацаатай байсан гэж үү | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0/0/0 | |
| 3 | btsee_0003 | Common Voice 24 (MN) | Одоо бид өөрсдөө өвчин эмгэгээсээ салахыг хичээцгээе. | одоо бид өөрсдөө өвчин эмгэгээсээ салахыг хичээцгээе | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0/0/0 | |
| 4 | btsee_0004 | Common Voice 24 (MN) | Би бол голдуу хээрээр гэр, хэцээр дэр хийж явдаг хүн. | би бол голдуу хээрээр гэр хэцээр дэр хийж явдаг хүн | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0/0/0 | |
| 5 | btsee_0005 | Common Voice 24 (MN) | Хан хурмаст уурлаж, Болдоггүй Бор өвгөнийг хор луугаараа ниргүүлэхээр явуулжээ. | хан хурмаст уурлаж болдоггүй бор өвгөнийг хоёр луугаараа ниргүүлэхээр явуулжээ | 10.0% | 1.3% | 0/0/1 | |
| 6 | btsee_0006 | Common Voice 24 (MN) | Алив наашаа ороод ир гээд гэртээ оров. | алив наашаа ороод ир гээд гэртээ оров | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0/0/0 | |
| 7 | btsee_0007 | Common Voice 24 (MN) | Өө өндөр дээдэс таны тухайд би баталж чадахгүй. | өө өндөр дээдэс таны тухайд би баталж чадахгүй | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0/0/0 | |
| 8 | btsee_0008 | Common Voice 24 (MN) | Харин гурав дахь удаагаас эхлэн хүмүүсийг сонирхож эхлэв. | харин гурав дахь удаагаас эхлэн хүмүүс сонирхож эхэлнэ | 25.0% | 10.7% | 0/0/2 | |
| 9 | btsee_0009 | Common Voice 24 (MN) | Та нар очингуутаа шөл л өгч үз. | та нар очингуутаа шөл л өгч үз | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0/0/0 | |
| 10 | btsee_0010 | Common Voice 24 (MN) | Ерөөсөө литр үйлдвэрээсээ салаагүй явсан юм чинь. | ерөөсөө л үйлдвэрээсээ салаагүй явсан юм чинь | 14.3% | 6.2% | 0/0/1 |
Methodology
How these numbers were produced.
Provider: Moonshine MN (Moonshine — an edge-oriented ASR architecture with variable-length audio encoding — trained for Mongolian. 190 MB, the smallest model on the board.). Models with this badge were trained on data that overlaps the benchmark corpora (Mongolian Common Voice — 113 of 173 samples — or the public Shunya Labs corpus). Scores on overlapping corpora are inflated by memorization; judge these models by the per-dataset table on their details page, especially the corpora they were NOT trained on.
Endpoint local (transformers). Language mn. Operating point orgilj/moonshine-mn (Moonshine encoder-decoder) on mps. Diarization none.
Datasets: Common Voice 24 (MN), Shunya Labs Mongolian Speech, Common Voice 20 (MN), Modern Voice — 265 samples, 1849.3s of audio total.
- Common Voice 24 (MN)https://huggingface.co/datasets/btsee/common-voices-24-mn
- Shunya Labs Mongolian Speechhttps://huggingface.co/datasets/shunyalabs/mongolian-speech-dataset
- Common Voice 20 (MN)https://huggingface.co/datasets/warmestman/common-voice-20-mn-normalized
- Modern Voice—
Metrics: WER and CER are computed with a standard word/character Levenshtein alignment, normalized for case and punctuation. Accuracy = 100 − WER. Speed factor = audio duration ÷ processing time (× realtime). All requests are real Moonshine MN Batch API calls, not cached or simulated.
Diff highlighting: The result column aligns to the ground truth and colors every substitution and insertion red. Deletions (words missing from the result) are not shown in the result column — the Expected column already holds the full ground truth as-is.