# Copyright 2021 The HuggingFace Evaluate Authors. # # Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); # you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. # You may obtain a copy of the License at # # http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 # # Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software # distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, # WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. # See the License for the specific language governing permissions and # limitations under the License. """ Word Error Ratio (WER) metric. """ import datasets from jiwer import compute_measures import evaluate _KWARGS_DESCRIPTION = """ Compute WER score of transcribed segments against references. Args: references: List of references for each speech input. predictions: List of transcriptions to score. concatenate_texts (bool, default=False): Whether to concatenate all input texts or compute WER iteratively. Returns: (float): the word error rate Examples: >>> predictions = ["this is the prediction", "there is an other sample"] >>> references = ["this is the reference", "there is another one"] >>> wer = evaluate.load("wer") >>> wer_score = wer.compute(predictions=predictions, references=references) >>> print(wer_score) 0.5 """ @evaluate.utils.file_utils.add_start_docstrings(_DESCRIPTION, _KWARGS_DESCRIPTION) class WER(evaluate.Metric): def _info(self): return evaluate.MetricInfo( features=datasets.Features( { "predictions": datasets.Value("string", id="sequence"), "references": datasets.Value("string", id="sequence"), } ), codebase_urls=["https://github.com/jitsi/jiwer/"], reference_urls=[ "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_error_rate", ], ) def _compute(self, predictions=None, references=None, concatenate_texts=False): if concatenate_texts: return compute_measures(references, predictions)["wer"] else: incorrect = 0 total = 0 for prediction, reference in zip(predictions, references): measures = compute_measures(reference, prediction) incorrect += measures["substitutions"] + measures["deletions"] + measures["insertions"] total += measures["substitutions"] + measures["deletions"] + measures["hits"] return incorrect / total