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MedWER: A Reproducible, Model-Free Evaluation Protocol for Medical Speech Recognition

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arXiv:2609.05728v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Overall word error rate hides clinically critical errors: a transcript can be 95% correct and still swap one drug for another. The usual fix weights errors on medical entities, and almost always depends on an evaluation-time named-entity recognition (…

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  1. 2026-09-09 04:00 · arXiv cs.CL
    MedWER: A Reproducible, Model-Free Evaluation Protocol for Medical Speech Recognition

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