Ignore PnC for WER calculation: streaming ASR inference (#15550)

artbataev · web-flow · commit 29f38844e7f6 · 2026-03-26T13:18:13.000+04:00
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Bataev &lt;vbataev@nvidia.com&gt;
diff --git a/examples/asr/asr_chunked_inference/rnnt/speech_to_text_streaming_infer_rnnt.py b/examples/asr/asr_chunked_inference/rnnt/speech_to_text_streaming_infer_rnnt.py
@@ -485,6 +485,8 @@ def main(cfg: TranscriptionConfig) -> TranscriptionConfig:
             langid=cfg.langid,
             use_cer=cfg.use_cer,
             output_filename=None,
+            ignore_punctuation=True,
+            ignore_capitalization=True,
         )
         if output_manifest_w_wer:
             logging.info(f"Writing prediction and error rate of each sample to {output_manifest_w_wer}!")

Original file line number	Diff line number	Diff line change
`@@ -485,6 +485,8 @@ def main(cfg: TranscriptionConfig) -> TranscriptionConfig:`
`485`	`485`	`langid=cfg.langid,`
`486`	`486`	`use_cer=cfg.use_cer,`
`487`	`487`	`output_filename=None,`
	`488`	`+ ignore_punctuation=True,`
	`489`	`+ ignore_capitalization=True,`
`488`	`490`	`)`
`489`	`491`	`if output_manifest_w_wer:`
`490`	`492`	`logging.info(f"Writing prediction and error rate of each sample to {output_manifest_w_wer}!")`