def METHOD_NAME(self):
    ref = 'the lieutenant governor lilburn w boggs afterward governor '\
            'was a pronounced mormon hater and throughout the period of '\
            'the troubles he manifested sympathy with the persecutors'
    hyp = 'the lieutenant governor little bit how bags afterward '\
            'governor was a pronounced warman hater and throughout the '\
            'period of th troubles he manifests sympathy with the '\
            'persecutors'
    word_error_rate = error_rate.wer(ref, hyp)
    self.assertTrue(abs(word_error_rate - 0.2692307692) < 1e-6)