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jiwer WER runs very fast , compared to Torchmetrics WER how? #68

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sshankar619 opened this issue Oct 7, 2022 · 1 comment

sshankar619 commented Oct 7, 2022 •

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Can somebody explain how JiWER runs much faster?

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nikvaessen commented Oct 7, 2022

Because they use pure-python, while this library offloads the edit distance computation to a c library.

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