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Word error rate

Known as: Error rate, WER, Word recognition rate 
Word error rate (WER) is a common metric of the performance of a speech recognition or machine translation system. The general difficulty of… 
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Highly Cited
2017
Highly Cited
2017
Minimum Word Error Rate Training for Attention-Based Sequence-to-Sequence Models
Sequence-to-sequence models, such as attention-based models in automatic speech recognition (ASR), are typically trained to… 
Highly Cited
2017
Highly Cited
2017
Optimizing Expected Word Error Rate via Sampling for Speech Recognition
State-level minimum Bayes risk (sMBR) training has become the de facto standard for sequence-level training of speech recognition… 
Highly Cited
2012
Highly Cited
2012
Application of Pretrained Deep Neural Networks to Large Vocabulary Speech Recognition
The use of Deep Belief Networks (DBN) to pretrain Neural Networks has recently led to a resurgence in the use of Artificial… 
Highly Cited
2011
Highly Cited
2011
Why word error rate is not a good metric for speech recognizer training for the speech translation task?
Speech translation (ST) is an enabling technology for cross-lingual oral communication. A ST system consists of two major… 
Highly Cited
2006
Highly Cited
2006
Word spotting for historical documents
  • T. RathR. Manmatha
  • International Journal of Document Analysis and…
  • 2006
  • Corpus ID: 29159089
Searching and indexing historical handwritten collections are a very challenging problem. We describe an approach called word… 
Highly Cited
2006
Highly Cited
2006
Error rate performance analysis of coded free-space optical links over gamma-gamma atmospheric turbulence channels
Error control coding can be used over free-space optical (FSO) links to mitigate turbulence-induced fading. In this paper, we… 
Highly Cited
2004
Highly Cited
2004
Error rate performance of coded free-space optical links over strong turbulence channels
Error control coding can be used over free-space optical (FSO) links to mitigate turbulence-induced fading. We present error rate… 
Highly Cited
1999
Highly Cited
1999
Vector-based Natural Language Call Routing
This paper describes a domain-independent, automatically trained natural language call router for directing incoming calls in a… 
Highly Cited
1998
Highly Cited
1998
Maximum likelihood modeling with Gaussian distributions for classification
  • R. Gopinath
  • Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference…
  • 1998
  • Corpus ID: 2238572
Maximum likelihood (ML) modeling of multiclass data for classification often suffers from the following problems: (a) data… 
Highly Cited
1995
Highly Cited
1995
Towards increasing speech recognition error rates
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