# FineEnvs Updates Kannada OCR Performance

> FineEnvs improves Kannada OCR accuracy after checkpoint selection.
- Title: FineEnvs Updates Kannada OCR Performance · RuntimeWire
- Summary: FineEnvs improves Kannada OCR accuracy after checkpoint selection. FineEnvs reduced character error rates on Kannada benchmarks by selecting checkpoint 500…
- Keywords: fineenvs, kannada, ocr, checkpoint, character error rate, test data, technology, Updates, Performance, RuntimeWire
- Source: RuntimeWire — https://runtimewire.com/article/fineenvs-reports-kannada-ocr-gains-after-selecting-a-checkpoint-on-test-data
- Author: RuntimeWire
- Published: 2026-10-17T00:16:26.37+00:00
- Read time: 1 min
- Topics: fineenvs, kannada, ocr, checkpoint, character error rate, test data, technology, ai
## Test-set selection impact
Test-set selection can make reported scores less representative of performance on unseen data.
## FineEnvs checkpoint update
FineEnvs changed OCR adapter after issue was flagged, reducing character error rate from 0.4277 to 0.3602.
## Performance metrics
Speech adapter reduced capped per-clip character error rate from 0.1047 to 0.0571 on Kannada FLEURS test clips.
## Key takeaway

FineEnvs reduced character error rates on Kannada benchmarks by selecting checkpoint 500 over step 300.