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TIMIT typically reports PER, not WER

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The docs here mention that TIMIT reports WER, but this dataset typically serves as a benchmark for phone error rate (PER), because it’s one of the few resources that have manually annotated phone segments. I recommend to fix and clarify that in the README:

https://github.com/huggingface/evaluate/blob/c1141b02941dc508ca4560b9dfe5b7a90f4cf785/metrics/wer/README.md?plain=1#L68

I think it would be good to have a clear difference between word/character/phone/token error rate (WER/CER/PER/TER) at the library level.

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