Is Word Error Rate a good evaluation metric for Speech Recognition in Indic Languages?. (arXiv:2203.16601v3 [cs.CL] UPDATED)

Web: http://arxiv.org/abs/2203.16601

We propose a new method for the calculation of error rates in Automatic
Speech Recognition (ASR). This new metric is for languages that contain half
characters and where the same character can be written in different forms. We
implement our methodology in Hindi which is one of the main languages from
Indic context and we think this approach is scalable to other similar languages
containing a large character set. We call our metrics Alternate Word Error Rate
(AWER) and Alternate …

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