Pywer is a simple Python package to calculate word error rate (WER). Pywer can also calculate character error rate (CER).
You can install pywer via pip.
pip install pywer
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}")Install pre-commit hooks.
pip install pre-commit
pre-commit install --install-hooks