import jiwer import argparse import os import json from datetime import datetime def evaluate_speech_recognition(output_path, groundtruth_path, wer_threshold=0.3): """ Evaluate speech recognition performance using WER (Word Error Rate) metric. Args: output_path (str): Path to speech recognition output text file groundtruth_path (str): Path to ground truth text file wer_threshold (float): WER threshold (default 0.3, i.e., 30%) Returns: dict: Dictionary containing WER value and evaluation results """ # Read text file def read_text_file(file_path): try: with open(file_path, 'r', encoding='utf-8') as f: text = f.read().strip() # Only remove leading/trailing whitespace, preserve original format if not text: raise ValueError(f"File is empty: {file_path}") return text except UnicodeDecodeError: raise ValueError(f"File encoding error, expected UTF-8: {file_path}") except Exception as e: raise ValueError(f"Failed to read file {file_path}: {str(e)}") # Load output and ground truth texts try: output_text = read_text_file(output_path) groundtruth_text = read_text_file(groundtruth_path) except Exception as e: return { 'wer': None, 'threshold': wer_threshold, 'is_acceptable': False, 'message': f"Text loading failed: {str(e)}" } # Debug: print raw texts print(f"Raw groundtruth: '{groundtruth_text}'") print(f"Raw output: '{output_text}'") # Verify texts are not empty if not groundtruth_text.strip() or not output_text.strip(): return { 'wer': None, 'threshold': wer_threshold, 'is_acceptable': False, 'message': f"Empty text (Groundtruth: '{groundtruth_text}', Output: '{output_text}')" } # Calculate WER try: # Only lowercase conversion, preserve original word segmentation wer = jiwer.wer( groundtruth_text.lower(), output_text.lower() ) except Exception as e: return { 'wer': None, 'threshold': wer_threshold, 'is_acceptable': False, 'message': f"WER calculation failed: {str(e)} (Groundtruth: '{groundtruth_text}', Output: '{output_text}')" } # Evaluation results is_acceptable = wer <= wer_threshold result = { 'wer': float(wer), 'threshold': float(wer_threshold), 'is_acceptable': is_acceptable, 'message': f"WER: {wer * 100:.2f}%, {'Acceptable' if is_acceptable else 'Unacceptable'} (Threshold: {wer_threshold * 100:.2f}%)" } return result def check_file_validity(file_path): """Check if file exists, is not empty, and has correct format""" if not os.path.exists(file_path): return False, f"File not found: {file_path}" if os.path.getsize(file_path) == 0: return False, f"File is empty: {file_path}" if not file_path.endswith('.txt'): return False, f"Invalid file format, expected .txt: {file_path}" return True, "" def main(): parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="Evaluate speech recognition using WER metric.") parser.add_argument('--output', type=str, required=True, help="Path to the speech recognition output text file") parser.add_argument('--groundtruth', type=str, required=True, help="Path to the groundtruth text file") parser.add_argument('--threshold', type=float, default=0.3, help="WER threshold (default: 0.3, i.e., 30%)") parser.add_argument('--result', type=str, default=None, help="Path to JSONL file to store results") args = parser.parse_args() # Check file validity comments = [] process_success = True for path in [args.output, args.groundtruth]: is_valid, comment = check_file_validity(path) if not is_valid: process_success = False comments.append(comment) # Initialize result dictionary result_dict = { "Process": process_success, "Result": False, "TimePoint": datetime.now().strftime("%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S"), "comments": "" } # If Process failed, save results directly if not process_success: result_dict["comments"] = "; ".join(comments) else: try: # Run evaluation result = evaluate_speech_recognition( output_path=args.output, groundtruth_path=args.groundtruth, wer_threshold=args.threshold ) # Update results result_dict["Result"] = result['is_acceptable'] result_dict["comments"] = result['message'] print(result['message']) except Exception as e: result_dict["Result"] = False result_dict["comments"] = f"Evaluation failed: {str(e)}" comments.append(str(e)) # If result file path specified, save to JSONL if args.result: try: # Ensure proper boolean serialization serializable_dict = { "Process": bool(result_dict["Process"]), "Result": bool(result_dict["Result"]), "TimePoint": result_dict["TimePoint"], "comments": result_dict["comments"] } with open(args.result, 'a', encoding='utf-8') as f: json_line = json.dumps(serializable_dict, ensure_ascii=False) f.write(json_line + '\n') except Exception as e: print(f"Failed to save results to {args.result}: {str(e)}") raise # Raise exception to ensure non-zero exit code if __name__ == "__main__": main()