{
  "method": "Minimum word edit distance; Parakeet used as directional reference, selected model as hypothesis. No human reference; WER measures disagreement, not recognition accuracy.",
  "normalization": "Remove <language> tags; Unicode NFKC and case-fold; retain letters, combining marks and numbers; replace punctuation/symbols with spaces; split on whitespace. No stemming, transliteration or number-word equivalence.",
  "aggregate": "Micro-average: sum(S+D+I) / sum(Parakeet words)",
  "comparisons": {
    "qwen": {
      "hypothesis": "Qwen3-ASR-0.6B",
      "counts": {
        "reference_words": 482,
        "hypothesis_words": 476,
        "matches": 386,
        "substitutions": 80,
        "deletions": 16,
        "insertions": 10,
        "edits": 106,
        "micro_wer": 0.219917,
        "clips": 10
      }
    },
    "bodhan": {
      "hypothesis": "Indic-Transcribe Core",
      "counts": {
        "reference_words": 482,
        "hypothesis_words": 484,
        "matches": 422,
        "substitutions": 52,
        "deletions": 8,
        "insertions": 10,
        "edits": 70,
        "micro_wer": 0.145228,
        "clips": 10
      }
    }
  }
}