Rare example where Betteridge's law of headlines is wrong. One clever metric that Google mentioned in their early ASR papers was interesting: "WebScore". Basic

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.com/en//pubs/archive/36758.pdf https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.c...