Why word error rate is not a good metric for speech recognizer training for the speech translation task?

Xiaodong He, Li Deng, Alex Acero. Why word error rate is not a good metric for speech recognizer training for the speech translation task?. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2011, May 22-27, 2011, Prague Congress Center, Prague, Czech Republic. pages 5632-5635, IEEE, 2011. [doi]

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