#WER

'A practical framework for evaluating modern voice agents that extends beyond ASR and WER to include task success, barge-in handling, hallucination-under-noise, safety, and perceptual quality.'

A hands-on guide to building a compact pipeline with SpeechBrain that generates speech, adds noise, enhances audio with MetricGAN+, and measures ASR word error rates before and after denoising

'Qwen3-ASR Flash from Alibaba is a single-model ASR that auto-detects and transcribes 11 languages, supports context injection for domain terms, and keeps WER below 8% in noisy or musical audio.'