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How we measure medical transcription: MER, and why WER lies to you

calendar_today June 23, 2026 domain assemblyai

AssemblyAI introduces Medical Error Rate (MER) as a metric for medical transcription, explaining why traditional Word Error Rate (WER) understates clinically significant errors and how MER better reflects real accuracy.

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