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Built a normalizer so WER stops penalizing formatting differences in STT evals! [P]

Via r/MachineLearning
Thursday, Apr 23, 2026 · 3:49PM
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Hey guys! At my company, we've been benchmarking STT engines a lot and kept running into the same issue: WER is penalizing formatting differences that have nothing to do with actual recognition quality. "It's $50" vs "it is fifty dollars", "3:00PM" vs "3 pm". Both perfect transcription, but a terrib

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