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Critical-entity error rate: the metric WER can't see

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Part 2 of the CAFA-IVR series. In part 1, WER scored "peas" and a ten-thousand-dollar mis-transfer as the same error. This post is about the machinery for telling them apart. The errors that break IVR tasks don't distribute evenly across the vocabulary. They cluster in a tiny governed set: amounts,…

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  1. 2026-10-06 14:59 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
    Critical-entity error rate: the metric WER can't see

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