Alignment Types

The Grammar Tester compares transcripts of interactions to the output of a speech engine, and returns an alignment type. The alignment type gives information on how well the speech engine recognized the spoken input. The alignment types are:

 

MATCH (m): The speech engine recognize the same words as the transcript.

 

Transcript:

TWO

THREE

ASR Result:

TWO

THREE

Alignments:

(m)

(m)

 

INSERTION (i): The speech engine recognized more words than the transcript.

 

Transcript:

*

TWO

THREE

ASR Result:

ONE

TWO

THREE

Alignments:

(i)

(m)

(m)

 

DELETION (d): The speech engine recognized fewer words than the transcript.

  

Transcript:

ONE

TWO

THREE

ASR Result:

*

TWO

THREE

Alignments:

(d)

(m)

(m)

 

SUBSTITUTION (s): The speech engine recognizes a word different from the transcript

 

Transcript:

TWO

THREE

ASR Result:

FOUR

THREE

Alignments:

(s)

(m)

 

OOV_INSERTION (OI): The transcript's word is out-of-vocabulary but the engine adds an extra word.

 

In this example, "know" is not in the grammar so it's considered to be out-of-vocabulary.

 

Transcript:

KNOW

ASR Result:

DELTA

Alignments:

(oi)


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