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Word error rate

Word error rate (WER) is a common metric of the performance of a speech recognition or machine translation system. The WER metric typically ranges from 0 to 1, where 0 indicates that the compared pieces of text are exactly identical, and 1 (or larger) indicates that they are completely different with no similarity. This way, a WER of 0.8 means that there…

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Word error rate

Nodes16
Edges15
Triples28
Avg. degree1.88
Density0.125
Components1

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related to Other sources · 15
Word error rate → Assessing Connected Word Recognisers, Figures, Information Retrieval Measures, McCowan, Merit, Minimizing Word Error Rate, On, Speech Communication, Speech Recognition Evaluation Archived, Spoken Language, Textual Summaries, Use, Waibel, Wayback MachineHunt, Zechner
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Word error rate → Acero, Chelba, However, In, It, Microsoft Research, Wang
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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
the one aboveinstance ofOther metricsOne problem with using a generic formula0.80text
howeverinstance ofOther metricsOne problem with using a generic formula0.80text
is that no account is taken of the effect that different types of error may have on the likelihood of successful outcomeinstance ofOther metricsOne problem with using a generic formula0.80text
e.g. some errors may be more disruptive than othersinstance ofOther metricsOne problem with using a generic formula0.80text
some may be corrected more easily than othersinstance ofOther metricsOne problem with using a generic formula0.80text
Word error raterelated to Edit distanceThe0.60section
Word error raterelated to ExperimentsIt0.60section
Word error raterelated to ExperimentsHowever0.60section
Word error raterelated to ExperimentsIn0.60section
Word error raterelated to ExperimentsMicrosoft Research0.60section
Word error raterelated to ExperimentsWang0.60section
Word error raterelated to ExperimentsAcero0.60section

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