Word Error Rate

Views Updated: Dec 15, 2025

Key Facts

Abbreviation
WER
Pronunciation
/wərd ˈɛrər reɪt/
Category
Computing
Related Field
General

Examples in Context

  1. Using the proposed method, a 333 % reduction in word error rate is obtained relative to conventional HMM system for a speaker-independent, small vocabulary recognition task.
  2. The experiment on speaker independent large vocabulary continuous speech recognition is introduced, the word error rate is reduced by 6 %, which shows that the duration information improves the performance of the system.
  3. Experimental results on a large vocabulary continues speech recognition task of mandarin show that in comparison to the traditional diagonal modeling technique, the proposed method can get nearly 18.8 % word error rate reduction without incurring much computation load during decoding.
  4. Tests show that the method is able to reduce the word error rate by about 10 % even with very short utterance.
  5. Improved Word Error Rate(WER) evaluation algorithm for automatic speech recognition

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