pywer 0.1.0

A simple Python package to calculate word error rate (WER).

pywer

Pywer is a simple Python package to calculate word error rate (WER). Pywer can also calculate character error rate (CER).

Install

pip install pywer

Usage

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}")