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This paper introduces NoRefER, a novel referenceless quality metric for automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems. Traditional reference-based metrics for evaluating ASR systems require costly ground-truth transcripts. NoRefER overcomes…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-23 Kamer Ali Yuksel , Thiago Ferreira , Golara Javadi , Mohamed El-Badrashiny , Ahmet Gunduz

Word error rate (WER) is a metric used to evaluate the quality of transcriptions produced by Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems. In many applications, it is of interest to estimate WER given a pair of a speech utterance and a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Chanho Park , Mingjie Chen , Thomas Hain

The performances of automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems are usually evaluated by the metric word error rate (WER) when the manually transcribed data are provided, which are, however, expensively available in the real scenario. In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Kai Fan , Jiayi Wang , Bo Li , Shiliang Zhang , Boxing Chen , Niyu Ge , Zhijie Yan

In the realm of automatic speech recognition (ASR), the quest for models that not only perform with high accuracy but also offer transparency in their decision-making processes is crucial. The potential of quality estimation (QE) metrics is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Golara Javadi , Kamer Ali Yuksel , Yunsu Kim , Thiago Castro Ferreira , Mohamed Al-Badrashiny

Source separation is a crucial pre-processing step for various speech processing tasks, such as automatic speech recognition (ASR). Traditionally, the evaluation metrics for speech separation rely on the matched reference audios and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-28 Ari Frummer , Helin Wang , Tianyu Cao , Adi Arbel , Yuval Sieradzki , Oren Gal , Jesús Villalba , Thomas Thebaud , Najim Dehak

Word Error Rate (WER) is the primary metric used to assess automatic speech recognition (ASR) model quality. It has been shown that ASR models tend to have much higher WER on speakers with speech impairments than typical English speakers.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-23 Jimmy Tobin , Qisheng Li , Subhashini Venugopalan , Katie Seaver , Richard Cave , Katrin Tomanek

Recent advances in speech foundation models are largely driven by scaling both model size and data, enabling them to perform a wide range of tasks, including speech recognition. Traditionally, ASR models are evaluated using metrics like…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Abdul Waheed , Hanin Atwany , Rita Singh , Bhiksha Raj

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) plays a crucial role in human-machine interaction and serves as an interface for a wide range of applications. Traditionally, ASR performance has been evaluated using Word Error Rate (WER), a metric that…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-23 Sujith Pulikodan , Sahapthan K , Prasanta Kumar Ghosh , Visruth Sanka , Nihar Desai

Word error rate (WER) is a standard metric for the evaluation of Automated Speech Recognition (ASR) systems. However, WER fails to provide a fair evaluation of human perceived quality in presence of spelling variations, abbreviations, or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Satarupa Guha , Rahul Ambavat , Ankur Gupta , Manish Gupta , Rupeshkumar Mehta

Measuring the performance of automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems requires manually transcribed data in order to compute the word error rate (WER), which is often time-consuming and expensive. In this paper, we continue our effort in…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-11 Ahmed Ali , Steve Renals

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems have traditionally been evaluated using English datasets, with the word error rate (WER) serving as the predominant metric. WER's simplicity and ease of interpretation have contributed to its…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Thennal D K , Jesin James , Deepa P Gopinath , Muhammed Ashraf K

Modern speech synthesis systems have improved significantly, with synthetic speech being indistinguishable from real speech. However, efficient and holistic evaluation of synthetic speech still remains a significant challenge. Human…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Dareen Alharthi , Roshan Sharma , Hira Dhamyal , Soumi Maiti , Bhiksha Raj , Rita Singh

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) transcription errors are commonly assessed using metrics that compare them with a reference transcription, such as Word Error Rate (WER), which measures spelling deviations from the reference, or semantic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Antoine Tholly , Jane Wottawa , Mickael Rouvier , Richard Dufour

Speech enhancement (SE) systems are typically evaluated using a variety of instrumental metrics. The use of automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems to evaluate SE performance is common in literature, usually in terms of word error rate…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-13 Danilo de Oliveira , Tal Peer , Timo Gerkmann

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) is traditionally evaluated using Word Error Rate (WER), a metric that is insensitive to meaning. Embedding-based semantic metrics are better correlated with human perception, but decoder-based Large…

Recent advances in supervised, semi-supervised and self-supervised deep learning algorithms have shown significant improvement in the performance of automatic speech recognition(ASR) systems. The state-of-the-art systems have achieved a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Somnath Roy

Evaluating automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems is a classical but difficult and still open problem, which often boils down to focusing only on the word error rate (WER). However, this metric suffers from many limitations and does not…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Thibault Bañeras-Roux , Mickaël Rouvier , Jane Wottawa , Richard Dufour

Word error rate (WER) as a metric has a variety of limitations that have plagued the field of speech recognition. Evaluation datasets suffer from varying style, formality, and inherent ambiguity of the transcription task. In this work, we…

Measuring automatic speech recognition (ASR) system quality is critical for creating user-satisfying voice-driven applications. Word Error Rate (WER) has been traditionally used to evaluate ASR system quality; however, it sometimes…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-07 Suyoun Kim , Duc Le , Weiyi Zheng , Tarun Singh , Abhinav Arora , Xiaoyu Zhai , Christian Fuegen , Ozlem Kalinli , Michael L. Seltzer

Word error rate (WER) estimation aims to evaluate the quality of an automatic speech recognition (ASR) system's output without requiring ground-truth labels. This task has gained increasing attention as advanced ASR systems are trained on…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-30 Chanho Park , Chengsong Lu , Mingjie Chen , Thomas Hain
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