alt Hacker NewsWhat does WER/CER stand for? I see it as some kind of key metric under each model but not clear what it's measuring
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abdik • today at 7:28 PM
What purrcat259 said, and I think that the page should explain it, we will add a tooltip.
for some languages CER is more relevant than WER. Thai and Mandarin have no word boundaries, so we score them by character, and Japanese gets a reading-based CER.
Word Error Rate and Character Error Rate.
Common metrics to track how coarsely or finely accurate voice AI is