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TIMIT typically reports PER, not WER #94

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pzelasko opened this issue May 31, 2022 · 0 comments
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TIMIT typically reports PER, not WER #94

pzelasko opened this issue May 31, 2022 · 0 comments

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pzelasko commented May 31, 2022

The docs here mention that TIMIT reports WER, but this dataset typically serves as a benchmark for phone error rate (PER), because it’s one of the few resources that have manually annotated phone segments. I recommend to fix and clarify that in the README:

For example, datasets such as [LibriSpeech](https://huggingface.co/datasets/librispeech_asr) report a WER in the 1.8-3.3 range, whereas ASR models evaluated on [Timit](https://huggingface.co/datasets/timit_asr) report a WER in the 8.3-20.4 range.

I think it would be good to have a clear difference between word/character/phone/token error rate (WER/CER/PER/TER) at the library level.

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