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espnet#6760 asks for a unified evaluation toolkit for text and structured-text outputs, standing to text as VERSA stands to audio. This is the skeleton for it: the package layout, the interface, and the scoring contract, with exactly one metric implemented to pin that contract down. SPLET is a fourth top-level package rather than a subpackage of espnet3, because it is meant to be extracted into its own repository and PyPI distribution once the design settles. Keeping its import path identical before and after that move means the extraction is a directory move rather than a rename of every call site. What makes that true is that nothing inside splet/ imports ESPnet -- which is exactly what the espnet3 metrics it will replace do today -- so ci/check_splet_independence.py fails the build if that changes, or if splet/ imports a package the `splet` extra does not declare. The dependency runs one way: espnet3 may import splet. The interface is VERSA's, deliberately: `splet-score --pred X --gt Y --score_config Z --output_file W --io ...`, a YAML list of `- name: metric` entries, metrics as `*_setup` / `*_metric` function pairs returning a flat dict, one JSON object per utterance out. `--hyp` and `--ref` are aliases. A recipe that knows how to call VERSA for its audio does not need a second convention for its text. Three things differ from VERSA, each for a reason: - A session tier, between utterance and corpus. cpWER, ORC-WER, DER and JER are defined over a whole recording, and pooled across recordings; a speaker permutation means nothing outside one. The issue asks for long-form and multi-speaker evaluation to be first class, and that is what first class means here. No metric lives there yet; the contract does. - Error rates are pooled, not averaged: metrics report `*_errors` and `*_ref_len` next to the rate, and the summary recomputes sum(errors)/sum(ref_len), which is what SCTK reports. The mean of per-utterance rates is a different number -- in the test, 1/9 against 1/4. - Normalization is an object with its config attached, not a flag, so that a reported score carries the pipeline that produced it. WER and CER agree with jiwer, which is what espnet3's current metrics use. Nothing is validated against SCTK yet, and the S/D/I split in particular is not: writing the backend parity test turned up that the pure-Python and rapidfuzz alignments split the same total into different S/D/I, because they break minimum-cost ties differently. That is why the default backend is the reference implementation rather than whichever happens to be installed -- a results table reports S/D/I, and a number that changes with the contents of the environment is not reproducible. Both the disagreement and the reason are pinned by tests. Whisper-style normalization raises rather than approximating: three of its four stages is not "whisper-style", it is a number that matches no published Whisper result. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
SPLET's WER/CER has to reproduce sclite, so the tests need a reference that does not depend on SCTK being built on the machine running them. These are the fixtures and sclite's own answers for them. The corpus is small and deliberately adversarial: two utterances are transpositions, which is where a unit-cost Levenshtein and sclite's weighted DP disagree. sclite weights insertion and deletion at 3 and substitution at 4 (src/sclite/word.c), so it resolves a transposition as a deletion plus an insertion where unit costs call it two substitutions. The totals agree either way, so only the S/D/I split exposes the difference -- on wer_default unit costs give 6/7/1 against sclite's 2/9/3, and on cer_poor 19/76/21 against 13/79/24. A fixture that did not contain a transposition would pass under both cost models and prove nothing. Also covered: an empty hypothesis, a single-token utterance, repeated tokens, a case-only difference (sclite folds case unless -s, so this pins the default), and a Mandarin/English code-switch pair for the -e utf-8 -c NOASCII options that egs2/seame scores with. The lengths in the golden file are derived from sclite's own counts rather than by tokenizing here, because under -c NOASCII sclite splits non-ASCII words into characters and a length counted on our side is not the one it scored against. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_011ABvFsAfnYtiZNqeYJT78K
The skeleton aligned with unit costs and said so: "do not claim these S/D/I figures match sclite's -- the totals should, the split may not." They did not match, and it is not a tie-break problem. sclite weights an insertion or a deletion at 3 and a substitution at 4 (SCTK src/sclite/word.c), so one substitution beats a deletion plus an insertion, 4 against 6, but two substitutions lose to one, 8 against 6. A transposition is therefore a deletion and an insertion, decided outright rather than by a tie-break. Its comparison order -- substitution, then deletion, then insertion (src/sclite/net_dp.c) -- is what the skeleton already used, so the tie-break was right and only the costs were wrong. On 4000 utterances of real spgispeech output this now reproduces sclite exactly, S/D/I and hits: 1297/412/440 at word level where unit costs gave 1303/409/437, and 1029/1994/2018 at character level where unit costs gave 1175/1921/1945. WER stays 2.25 and CER 0.93, which is what that recipe's metrics.json already reports. One finding worth stating plainly, because it contradicts what I believed when starting: the totals do NOT always agree. sclite minimises a weighted cost, not an edit count, so the alignment it picks can carry more edits than the minimum. On the 60%-CER corpus in test_error_rate.py sclite reports 846 character errors where jiwer reports 831 -- I checked that against the binary, and 846 is sclite's number. Minimum edit distance is by definition minimal, so sclite's total is an upper bound on jiwer's: equal on clean output, separating as the error rate climbs. Replacing jiwer can therefore move a number for a badly performing system, though not for a good one. Also here: * costs="unit" keeps plain Levenshtein, and the jiwer regression now asserts exact agreement under it rather than under the default. * rapidfuzz computes unit-cost edits and cannot express a weighted model, so it refuses costs="sclite" instead of quietly returning a different split. * case="fold" is the default, because sclite compares case-insensitively unless given -s and only four egs2 corpora pass it. The skeleton's uppercase docstring said the opposite. * tokenizer="noascii" is sclite's -c NOASCII, which splits non-ASCII words into characters and keeps ASCII words whole -- what egs2/seame scores code-switched Mandarin/English with. * optional_deletion_is_correct is sclite's -D. A reference token in parentheses costs 2 to delete rather than 3, and does not match the bare word: "(um)" against a spoken "um" is a substitution. Both measured against the binary. Not implemented: sclite's "@" token, which it charges 0.001 to insert or delete and leaves out of the tally entirely -- "a @ b" against "a @ b" scores 2 correct, not 3. That is a scoring-layer exclusion rather than a cost, ESPnet's tokenizers do not emit it, and half of a special case is worse than a documented absence. test/splet/test_vs_sclite.py checks all of this two ways: against the committed golden counts, which run everywhere including the CI job that does not build SCTK, and against the binary itself when it is present, including a 200-pair differential fuzz and a test that the goldens still agree with it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_011ABvFsAfnYtiZNqeYJT78K Also records the two things sclite does that this does not -- its @ token and -F, which scores word fragments as correct -- because an absence nobody wrote down is indistinguishable from a bug.
These are the only text cleaners that can change an egs2 ASR score. Across 191 ASR-family recipes, exactly three call sites set --cleaner at all: aishell's Whisper fine-tune (whisper_basic), allsstar_eng/s2t1 (whisper_en on both sides), and magicdata_ramc's LM warmstart (an explicit none). Every other recipe scores with no cleaner. So this is a small surface, and it is the whole of it. The implementation is openai-whisper 20250625's own code, copied. Not imported, because "from whisper.normalizers import ..." executes whisper/__init__.py, which imports torch. check_splet_independence.py forbids that, and it is right to: a text evaluator that drags in a tensor library cannot be extracted into its own package later. Not reimplemented, because the normalizer is four passes -- a 1739-entry spelling table, a number formatter, a contraction expander and a currency/unit handler -- each worth a point or more of WER on its own. It rewrites "Mr. O'Brien" to "mister 0 brien", the number pass having read a standalone "o" as a zero. Nobody would write that on purpose and nobody would guess it, and a recipe scored against real Whisper output depends on it. Three passes out of four is not "Whisper-style"; it is a number comparable with nothing. Changed from upstream, and nothing else: * import regex is deferred into the one branch that uses it (split_letters=True, off by default, turned on by no egs2 recipe) and guarded with a message naming the package. The default path therefore needs no third-party dependency at all. * more_itertools.windowed is inlined, and tested against more_itertools where it is installed. english.json is byte-identical. test_whisper_normalizer.py asserts string equality with the installed openai-whisper over the fixed sentences, the parity fixtures and 200 recombinations, for EnglishTextNormalizer and for BasicTextNormalizer with and without remove_diacritics -- so the copy is checked rather than trusted. The two vendored modules are excluded from flake8, black and isort. Linting them would mean editing them, and an edited copy is no longer the thing it is supposed to reproduce. Two corrections while here: * basic.uppercase_setup's docstring said "sclite's default scoring is case sensitive". It is the opposite -- sclite folds case unless given -s -- and the error-rate metric now handles case at scoring time, so the docstring says what the step is actually for. * The README status table claimed Whisper normalization was not started and that nothing had been checked against SCTK. Both were true when it was written and neither is now. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_011ABvFsAfnYtiZNqeYJT78K
asr.sh passes --non_linguistic_symbols ${nlsyms_txt} and
--remove_non_linguistic_symbols true to tokenize_text, and 33 egs2
recipes set an nlsyms_txt. espnet2 does the removal inside the
tokenizer, and the two tokenizers do not do the same thing:
* WordTokenizer drops a whitespace-delimited token when the whole token
is a symbol (word_tokenizer.py:44-51), so "inside<noise>a" keeps it.
* CharTokenizer scans the string and consumes a symbol wherever it
starts (char_tokenizer.py:48-66), so the same string loses it.
remove_tokens matched whole tokens only, which is right for WER and
wrong for CER. It now takes match="token" or match="substring", and
tokens_file for the nlsyms_txt shape.
test_nlsyms.py compares both modes against espnet2's actual tokenizers
rather than against a reading of them. A test may import espnet2 even
though splet/ may not: the rule is about the package, and checking
SPLET against the thing it replaces is the point of it.
Three deliberate differences from espnet2, each because the espnet2
behaviour is a hazard rather than a decision:
* CharTokenizer iterates a *set* of symbols and takes the first that
matches, so where one symbol is a prefix of another the result depends
on set iteration order, which Python randomises per process for
strings. This takes the longest match, which is deterministic and
agrees with espnet2 whenever no symbol is a prefix of another. That
holds for every nlsyms list in egs2, including the 1702-symbol OWSM
one, where every symbol is a complete <...>.
* A blank line in an nlsyms file becomes "" in espnet2's set, and an
empty symbol matches at every position. Blank lines are skipped.
* A missing nlsyms file makes espnet2 warn and carry on with an empty
set, silently scoring something other than what was asked for. This
raises.
Substring mode deliberately does not collapse whitespace: removing
"<noise>" from "a <noise> b" has to leave two spaces, because that is
what CharTokenizer produces and therefore what the CER denominator
counts.
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splet/egs/asr.yaml is updated in the same commit because it depends on
this: a shared normalize pipeline is replaced by a metric's own rather
than extended, and WER and CER need different match modes, so the example
has to spell both out or teach the wrong thing.
Each normalization step was already checked against its reference -- the Whisper normalizer against openai-whisper string for string, nlsyms removal against espnet2's own WordTokenizer and CharTokenizer. What was not checked is the composition, and the order is semantic rather than stylistic: asr.sh collapses whitespace, then cleans, then tokenizes, with nlsyms removal happening inside that last step. So this runs the real front-end. espnet2.bin.tokenize_text.tokenize is what asr.sh:1697-1721 pipes both sides through; it is called here with the arguments that stage passes, and its output compared token for token against the equivalent SPLET pipeline, over word and char tokenization crossed with no cleaner, whisper_en and whisper_basic. Also pins one ordering hazard that is silent when got wrong: remove_punctuation strips the angle brackets, so running it before remove_tokens leaves "<noise>" behind as the ordinary word "noise" and the non-speech marker gets scored as a real word. splet/egs/asr.yaml orders these correctly; this is what stops that being tidied later. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_011ABvFsAfnYtiZNqeYJT78K
asr.sh scores three error rates -- word, character and the subword one it
calls ter, from --token_type bpe. SPLET had the first two. The third was
defined in espnet3 instead, which meant one of the three metrics the
issue is about lived outside the package meant to hold them.
The skeleton had already reserved the slot: ALLOWED_THIRD_PARTY in
ci/check_splet_independence.py carries
"sentencepiece", # optional: token error rate
for a metric that did not exist yet. This is that metric. The tokenizer
is a new entry in TOKENIZER_CHOICES and imports sentencepiece behind a
try/except naming the package, so the dependency stays optional.
Spelled token_error_rate rather than ter, deliberately. sacrebleu calls
translation edit rate TER, and sw005320#2 adds it to the corpus
tier under that name; the two are unrelated and sharing a key would be a
trap for whoever reads a results table next. The espnet3 class keeps
reporting under TER, which is what metrics.json already uses.
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The adapters reached past SPLET's metrics and into splet.alignment, then
rebuilt on top of it everything SPLET already had: the tokenizer table,
case folding, the per-utterance result keys and the pooling. Four things
with two definitions each, in a package whose point is that evaluation
has one definition.
The skeleton's README says what this should have been:
So an espnet3 metric becomes a thin adapter over SPLET -- it keeps
the `BaseMetric` interface, reads the SCP files espnet3 hands it, and
calls `load_score_modules` / `list_scoring` / `load_summary`
which is now what it does. Scoring, pooling and alignment rendering are
SPLET's. What is left is the part that is genuinely ESPnet's: reading the
SCP files measure hands over, naming espnet2's text cleaners, writing the
alignment file, and the metrics.json key shape. A subclass is three class
attributes and a tokenizer_conf().
The aggregation moved into load_summary rather than into corpus_metrics.
An error rate's sufficient statistics are two integers that load_summary
pools for any metric reporting X_errors and X_ref_len, which is why it is
an utterance-tier metric at all; a corpus-tier one would re-read the whole
corpus to compute what those two integers already answer, and a future
cpwer or orc_wer would stop pooling for free.
No number moves. Through the real measure() driver over 4000 utterances
of spgispeech output: WER 2.25 with 1297/412/440, CER 0.93 with
1029/1994/2018, matching sclite exactly, as before the change.
One test had to change, and the way it changed is the point:
test_ter_counts_subword_tokens called metric.tokenize, which no longer
exists. It now compares the denominator against espnet2's own
SentencepiecesTokenizer, which is the assertion that was wanted anyway.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_011ABvFsAfnYtiZNqeYJT78K
Supersedes the first version of these adapters, which reached past
SPLET's metrics into splet.alignment; the two are one commit here so that
nobody reviews the version that was replaced.
Two gaps the skeleton left, both of the kind that only shows up as a test that quietly did not run. ci/integration_is_relevant.py decides which integration suites a pull request needs, by prefix. splet/ was not in any list, so a change confined to it was judged irrelevant to the espnet3 suite and skipped it -- even though espnet3's ASR metrics now score through splet, so such a change moves what the recipe reports. Verified both ways: a splet-only change now reports "1 of 1 changed paths can reach the espnet3 integration tests", and an unrelated one still reports none. ci/test_import_all.py imports every module under espnet2, espnet3 and egs3 to catch an import that only works on the author's machine. splet is now in that list; all 17 of its modules import cleanly, including the vendored Whisper normalizer, which is the one most likely to acquire an undeclared dependency. Also corrects the reason splet/corpus_metrics gives for existing. It said corpus BLEU is not the average of sentence BLEUs, which is true but does not distinguish it from WER -- corpus WER is not the average of per-utterance WERs either, and the skeleton's own test pins that at 1/9 against 1/4. The line is who does the pooling: an error rate's sufficient statistics are two integers that load_summary pools without being told how, while BLEU's are ten combined by a rule that generic summing cannot discover and that we do not want to write out, because writing it out is reimplementing sacrebleu. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_011ABvFsAfnYtiZNqeYJT78K The README status table comes with it: it claimed Whisper normalization was not started and that nothing had been checked against SCTK, both of which stopped being true.
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150-156: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winThe README says no adapter exists, but this PR adds one.
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173-173: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winAn empty input file causes a
KeyError.Two SCP files can be empty or have no rows. In that case,
iter_inputsyields nothing andlist_scoringreturns[].load_summary([])then returns only{"num_utterances": 0}, sosummary[prefix]raisesKeyError. The_COUNT_SUFFIXESlookups would fail the same way. A test set with no rows (for example, after filtering) will crashmeasurewith an error that does not explain the cause. Handle this case before the lookup: either raise a clearValueError, or return zero counts.Proposed fix
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Validate dependency declarations and optional-import guards.
declared copies the allowlist without checking the splet extra. The later manifest check only verifies that the extra exists. An unconditional import scipy therefore passes even though the extra does not install SciPy. Removing PyYAML from the extra also leaves import yaml approved.
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Thanks @chenehk, this is exactly the work #6760 asked for, and the sclite parity (OWSM v4 MLS_en reproducing the recipe's own 11.8 / 8.9 / 1.3 / 1.6) is the check that matters. Two things about how it lands rather than what is in it. Base. I have just opened #6832 with the skeleton alone, rebased onto current master, so that master rather than my fork branch is the integration point. Your first commit is that skeleton; once #6832 merges, please rebase this onto master and the diff shrinks to your own work. @modelpath-dev has said sw005320#2 will retarget the same way. Split. You offered to open the commits separately, and I will take you up on it, in this order:
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Two updates to #6832 that affect your rebase, and one reversal of mine. Names. In ESPnet a scorer is a beam-search component, so SPLET now avoids the word (47d4693 on #6832): the command is Missing vs empty. Whisper normalizer: keep it vendored. I asked for the |
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@Masao-Someki one decision for you to confirm, since it changes what espnet3's Decision: espnet3's WER / CER / TER switch from
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What did you change?
As per #6760, builds on @sw005320's SPLET skeleton (cherry-picked as the first commit here) and makes WER/CER/TER reproduce
scliteexactly, then switches espnet3's ASR metrics over to them.splet/alignment.py— the cost model. The skeleton aligned with unit costs and said so: "do not claim these S/D/I figures match sclite's." They did not, and it is not a tie-break problem.scliteweights an insertion or deletion at 3 and a substitution at 4 (SCTKsrc/sclite/word.c), so one substitution beats a deletion plus an insertion (4 vs 6) but two substitutions lose to one (8 vs 6). A transposition is therefore D+I, decided outright. Its comparison order — substitution, deletion, insertion (src/sclite/net_dp.c) — is what the skeleton already used, so only the costs were wrong.splet/normalizers/whisper/—whisper_enandwhisper_basic. These are the only text cleaners any egs2 ASR-family recipe sets; of 191 recipes, exactly three call sites set--cleanerat all. Vendored from openai-whisper 20250625 (MIT, licence and per-file headers included), becausefrom whisper.normalizers import ...executeswhisper/__init__.py, which imports torch — andci/check_splet_independence.pyforbids that. Changed from upstream in two ways only, both documented in the files:import regexdeferred into the one branch that uses it, andmore_itertools.windowedinlined. Net new hard dependencies: zero. If simply importingwhisperis preferred, I will remove the port in this code.splet/normalizers/basic.py— nlsyms.remove_tokensmatched whole tokens only, which is right for WER and wrong for CER:WordTokenizerdrops a whole whitespace-delimited token,CharTokenizerconsumes the symbol wherever it starts. It now takesmatch="token"/"substring"and atokens_filein thenlsyms_txtshape.spletgains the token error rate.asr.shscores three error rates — word, character, and the subword one it callsterfrom--token_type bpe. SPLET had the first two. The skeleton had already reserved the slot for the third:ALLOWED_THIRD_PARTYcarries"sentencepiece", # optional: token error ratefor a metric that did not exist yet. It is spelledtoken_error_raterather thanter, deliberately — sacrebleu calls translation edit rate TER and sw005320#2 adds it to the corpus tier under that name. The two are unrelated and sharing a key would be a trap. The espnet3 class still reports underTER, which is whatmetrics.jsonalready uses.espnet3/systems/asr/metrics/— WER, CER and TER now score through SPLET instead of jiwer. This dropsfrom espnet2.text.cleaner import TextCleaner, the import the independence rule exists to prevent and a no-op in every shipped config. The adapters are thin, as the skeleton's README asks: they keep theBaseMetricinterface, read the SCP filesmeasurehands over, and callload_score_modules/list_scoring/load_summary. Scoring, pooling and alignment rendering are SPLET's; what is left in espnet3 is SCP reading, the cleaner-name mapping, the alignment file and themetrics.jsonkey shape. A subclass is three class attributes and atokenizer_conf(). Net effect on espnet3: 262 lines added, 293 removed.If you would rather keep the jiwer implementation, say so and I will revert it.
splet/stands alone and its tests pass without it. I have kept the behaviour available rather than removed:costs="unit"is a minimum edit distance, which is exactly what jiwer computes, andcase="sensitive"restores the old comparison. See the two behaviour changes under Additional Context.Also: sclite's option surface as egs2 uses it (
-s,-c NOASCII,-D), the CI wiring that was missing, and a correction tosplet/corpus_metrics's docstring.Why did you make this change?
#6760 asks for a text-side counterpart to VERSA with compatibility with existing evaluation as a first-class requirement, and @sw005320 asked me in that thread to replace CER/WER with what espnet2 did via sctk. @modelpath-dev is taking corpus BLEU/chrF/TER, so this is the WER/CER/TER half.
The point of the package is that its numbers are the ones already published, so everything here is checked against the tool it replaces rather than against a reading of it:
sclite, three ways: committed golden counts that run without SCTK built, the binary itself where it is present, and a 200-pair differential fuzz.WordTokenizerandCharTokenizerfor nlsyms removal, andSentencepiecesTokenizerfor the subword denominator.espnet2.bin.tokenize_text, the functionasr.shactually pipes both sides through, for the whole pipeline — word and char tokenization crossed with no cleaner,whisper_enandwhisper_basic.On 4000 utterances of real spgispeech output, SPLET gives 1297/412/440 at word level and 1029/1994/2018 at character level, which is what
sclitereports for the same data. The strongest check is against a number somebody already published: scoringegs3/owsm_v4's MLS_en_test through espnet2's tokenizers with--cleaner whisper_en, SPLET reports WER 11.79, Sub 8.94, Del 1.27, Ins 1.58 against the 11.8 / 8.9 / 1.3 / 1.6 that recipe's ownsclitewrapper committed — a different code path reaching the same answer.Is your PR small enough?
No — 52 files, ~6600 lines, and I would rather say so than pretend otherwise.
Most of it is not hand-written code:
english.jsonalone is 1741 lines)The espnet3 side is a net reduction: 262 lines added against 293 removed.
It splits cleanly along the commits if you want it split, and each stands alone:
test_utils/spletfixtures + sclite goldenstokenize_textSay the word and I will open them separately, or drop 8 entirely.
Additional Context
Closes part of #6760. Follows the pattern #6735 established — test against the tool being replaced, not against a description of it. Coordinates with sw005320#2, which adds the corpus tier; the
ternaming is settled between the two so that translation edit rate and token error rate do not share a key.Two behaviour changes in the espnet3 metrics, measured on every real egs3 ASR output rather than assumed:
Case is folded by default, because
sclitecompares case-insensitively unless given-sand only four egs2 corpora pass it. jiwer was case-sensitive. This matters whenever either side carries case: a model emitting cased text against a lower-case reference was charged a substitution per word for it.The
"."placeholder for an empty string is gone, as #6735 removed it from the BLEU metric. An undecodable utterance scored one substitution where it should score a deletion per reference word. No egs3 ASR output has an empty hypothesis, so nothing in the repository moves on this one.One thing worth knowing before relying on this anywhere.
scliteminimises a weighted cost rather than an edit count, so the alignment it picks can carry more edits than the minimum, and its total is an upper bound on jiwer's rather than equal to it. They agree on clean output and separate as the error rate climbs.Not implemented, and recorded as such in
splet/alignment.pyand the README rather than left to be discovered: sclite's-F(score word fragments as correct — prefix/suffix matching, used by one egs2 recipe,dynamic_superb/ps2st1) and its@token, which sclite excludes from the tally altogether.Verification run:
egs3/mini_an4/asrend to end throughcreate_dataset → … → infer → measureon the SPLET-backed metrics, pluspytest test/splet test/espnet3/systems/asr/metricswith and without the optional dependencies and with and without SCTK built.