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by gok 1742 days ago
Rare example where Betteridge's law of headlines is wrong.

One clever metric that Google mentioned in their early ASR papers was interesting: "WebScore". Basically, they consider a hypothesis transcription to have errors only if it produces a different top web search result. [1] WebScore and WER always seemed to track each other though.

[1] https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.c...