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Is there a reason why Spanish and Italian have a lower WER than English? OpenAI is based in America right? They probably focused on English more than anything.
by daemoens 4y ago
Is there a reason why Spanish and Italian have a lower WER than English? OpenAI is based in America right? They probably focused on English more than anything.
- nshm 4y agoSpanish and Italian are very easy to recognize due to very simple phonetic structure.
- 0cf8612b2e1e 4y agoEnglish is the worst. “We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.” I could believe that other languages with more regular grammar might be easier to parse. Or maybe Romance languages lean on more easily distinguished phonemes.
- pessimizer 4y agoWonderful quote.
- paranoidrobot 4y agoI like that quote. English also tends to take delight in stealing words from other languages, and then using them in the wrong way. Seemingly in an effort to drive speakers of the other language up the wall.
- nmfisher 4y agoWER is really dataset-dependent, you can’t really compare across different test sets unless they’re almost identical (acoustic environment, microphone quality, speaker profiles, linguistic domain, etc). WER for the exact same model can vary wildly between datasets, it’s really only useful for comparing model performance on a single test set.