Real time factor

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The real time factor (RTF) is a common metric of measuring the speed of an automatic speech recognition system. It can also be used in other context where an audio or video signal is processed (usually automatically) at nearly constant rate (e.g. reading music from a CD).

[edit] Definition

If it takes time P to process an input of length I the real time factor is defined as

RTF = \frac{P}{I}.

If for example a recording of length 2 hours is processed in 8 hours computation time, the real time factor is 4. When the real time factor is 1, the processing is done in real time. It is a hardware dependent value.


The accuracy of a speech recognition system on the other hand is measured with the word error rate.

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