https://github.com/jumon/pywer

A simple Python package to calculate word error rate (WER).
https://github.com/jumon/pywer

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A simple Python package to calculate word error rate (WER).

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/jumon/pywer
• Owner: jumon
• License: mit
• Created: 2021-02-06T08:02:02.000Z (over 4 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2021-02-07T08:58:53.000Z (over 4 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-08-08T23:21:18.204Z (about 1 year ago)
• Topics: speech-recognition, speech-to-text, wer, word-error-rate
• Language: Python
• Homepage:
• Size: 12.7 KB
• Stars: 5
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# pywer

![license](https://img.shields.io/github/license/jumon/pywer)

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Pywer is a simple Python package to calculate word error rate (WER). Pywer can also

calculate character error rate (CER).

## Install

You can install pywer via pip.

```

pip install pywer

```

## Usage

```python

import pywer

references = [

    "this is a simple python package",

    "it calculates word error rate",

    "it can also calculate cer",

]

hypotheses = [

    "this is the simple python package",

    "it calculates word error",

    "it can also calculate see er",

]

wer = pywer.wer(references, hypotheses)

cer = pywer.cer(references, hypotheses)

print(f"WER: {wer:.2f}, CER: {cer:.2f}")

```

## Development

Install pre-commit hooks.

```

pip install pre-commit

pre-commit install --install-hooks

```