{"paper":{"title":"Is Word Error Rate a good evaluation metric for Speech Recognition in Indic Languages?","license":"http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","headline":"","cross_cats":["eess.AS"],"primary_cat":"cs.CL","authors_text":"Anirudh Gupta, Ankur Dhuriya, Harveen Singh Chadha, Neeraj Chhimwal, Priyanshi Shah, Rishabh Gaur, Vivek Raghavan","submitted_at":"2022-03-30T18:32:08Z","abstract_excerpt":"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 Character Error Rate (ACER).\n  We train our ASR models using wav2vec 2.0\\cite{baevski2020wav2vec} for Indic languages"},"claims":{"count":0,"items":[],"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"source":{"id":"2203.16601","kind":"arxiv","version":3},"verdict":{"id":null,"model_set":{},"created_at":null,"strongest_claim":"","one_line_summary":"","pipeline_version":null,"weakest_assumption":"","pith_extraction_headline":""},"integrity":{"clean":true,"summary":{"advisory":0,"critical":0,"by_detector":{},"informational":0},"endpoint":"/pith/2203.16601/integrity.json","findings":[],"available":true,"detectors_run":[],"snapshot_sha256":"c28c3603d3b5d939e8dc4c7e95fa8dfce3d595e45f758748cecf8e644a296938"},"references":{"count":0,"sample":[],"resolved_work":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57","internal_anchors":0},"formal_canon":{"evidence_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"author_claims":{"count":0,"strong_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"builder_version":"pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1"}