WERS

Wers is best known as the call sign of a non-commercial college radio station licensed to Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts. It broadcasts on 88.9 FM and also streams online, offering a mix of music, talk, and news produced by students and community volunteers. As a student-run service, WERS provides hands-on training in broadcasting, production, and media operations and engages with the local community through live events and partnerships with campus organizations.

In addition to this use, the lowercase term "wers" is not a standard standalone term in English. In technical contexts, the acronym WER stands for Word Error Rate, a common metric in automatic speech recognition; plural forms such as WERs appear in technical writing when discussing multiple measurements. Because of this, "wers" without capitalization is typically not used to represent a specific concept in most general references, and readers should use WER or WERs where appropriate.

See also: Word Error Rate (WER) and other uses of radio station call signs in the United States. For more information about Emerson College’s media programs, consult official college sources and WERS’ own programming and history documentation.