diff --git a/simuleval/evaluator/scorers/quality_scorer.py b/simuleval/evaluator/scorers/quality_scorer.py
index 7611b18b..d36167a6 100644
--- a/simuleval/evaluator/scorers/quality_scorer.py
+++ b/simuleval/evaluator/scorers/quality_scorer.py
@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@
 from typing import Dict
 from sacrebleu.metrics.bleu import BLEU
 import subprocess
+import editdistance
+from simuleval.evaluator.scorers.tokenizer import EvaluationTokenizer
 
 QUALITY_SCORERS_DICT = {}
 
@@ -34,6 +36,27 @@ def add_args(parser):
         pass
 
 
+def add_wer_args(parser):
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--lowercase",
+        action="store_true",
+        default=False,
+        help="Lowercasing",
+    )
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--remove-punct",
+        action="store_true",
+        default=False,
+        help="Remove puncturaiton marks",
+    )
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--char-level",
+        action="store_true",
+        default=False,
+        help="Character-level evaluation",
+    )
+
+
 def add_sacrebleu_args(parser):
     parser.add_argument(
         "--sacrebleu-tokenizer",
@@ -44,6 +67,68 @@ def add_sacrebleu_args(parser):
     )
 
 
+@register_quality_scorer("WER")
+class WERScorer(QualityScorer):
+    """
+    WER Scorer
+
+    Usage:
+        :code:`--quality-metrics WER`
+
+    Additional command line arguments:
+
+    .. argparse::
+        :ref: simuleval.evaluator.scorers.quality_scorer.add_wer_args
+        :passparser:
+        :prog:
+    """
+
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        tokenizer: str = "13a",
+        lowercase: bool = False,
+        remove_punct: bool = False,
+        char_level: bool = False,
+    ) -> None:
+        super().__init__()
+        self.logger = logging.getLogger("simuleval.scorer.wer")
+        self.tokenizer = EvaluationTokenizer(
+            tokenizer_type=tokenizer,
+            lowercase=lowercase,
+            punctuation_removal=remove_punct,
+            character_tokenization=char_level,
+        )
+
+    def __call__(self, instances: Dict) -> float:
+        try:
+            hyps = [
+                self.tokenizer.tokenize(ins.prediction) for ins in instances.values()
+            ]
+            refs = [
+                self.tokenizer.tokenize(ins.reference) for ins in instances.values()
+            ]
+            err_rates = (
+                sum([editdistance.eval(hyp, ref) for hyp, ref in zip(hyps, refs)])
+                * 100
+                / sum([len(ref) for ref in refs])
+            )
+            return err_rates
+        except Exception as e:
+            self.logger.error(str(e))
+            return 0
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def add_args(parser):
+        add_wer_args(parser)
+        add_sacrebleu_args(parser)
+
+    @classmethod
+    def from_args(cls, args):
+        return cls(
+            args.sacrebleu_tokenizer, args.lowercase, args.remove_punct, args.char_level
+        )
+
+
 @register_quality_scorer("BLEU")
 class SacreBLEUScorer(QualityScorer):
     """
diff --git a/simuleval/evaluator/scorers/tokenizer.py b/simuleval/evaluator/scorers/tokenizer.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..b0cedd50
--- /dev/null
+++ b/simuleval/evaluator/scorers/tokenizer.py
@@ -0,0 +1,80 @@
+# Copyright (c) Facebook, Inc. and its affiliates.
+#
+# This source code is licensed under the MIT license found in the
+# LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree.
+
+import unicodedata
+
+import sacrebleu as sb
+
+from fairseq.dataclass import ChoiceEnum
+
+SACREBLEU_V2_ABOVE = int(sb.__version__[0]) >= 2
+
+
+class EvaluationTokenizer(object):
+    """A generic evaluation-time tokenizer, which leverages built-in tokenizers
+    in sacreBLEU (https://github.com/mjpost/sacrebleu). It additionally provides
+    lowercasing, punctuation removal and character tokenization, which are
+    applied after sacreBLEU tokenization.
+
+    Args:
+        tokenizer_type (str): the type of sacreBLEU tokenizer to apply.
+        lowercase (bool): lowercase the text.
+        punctuation_removal (bool): remove punctuation (based on unicode
+        category) from text.
+        character_tokenization (bool): tokenize the text to characters.
+    """
+
+    SPACE = chr(32)
+    SPACE_ESCAPE = chr(9601)
+    _ALL_TOKENIZER_TYPES = (
+        sb.BLEU.TOKENIZERS
+        if SACREBLEU_V2_ABOVE
+        else ["none", "13a", "intl", "zh", "ja-mecab"]
+    )
+    ALL_TOKENIZER_TYPES = ChoiceEnum(_ALL_TOKENIZER_TYPES)
+
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        tokenizer_type: str = "13a",
+        lowercase: bool = False,
+        punctuation_removal: bool = False,
+        character_tokenization: bool = False,
+    ):
+
+        assert (
+            tokenizer_type in self._ALL_TOKENIZER_TYPES
+        ), f"{tokenizer_type}, {self._ALL_TOKENIZER_TYPES}"
+        self.lowercase = lowercase
+        self.punctuation_removal = punctuation_removal
+        self.character_tokenization = character_tokenization
+        if SACREBLEU_V2_ABOVE:
+            self.tokenizer = sb.BLEU(tokenize=str(tokenizer_type)).tokenizer
+        else:
+            self.tokenizer = sb.tokenizers.TOKENIZERS[tokenizer_type]()
+
+    @classmethod
+    def remove_punctuation(cls, sent: str):
+        """Remove punctuation based on Unicode category."""
+        return cls.SPACE.join(
+            t
+            for t in sent.split(cls.SPACE)
+            if not all(unicodedata.category(c)[0] == "P" for c in t)
+        )
+
+    def tokenize(self, sent: str):
+        tokenized = self.tokenizer(sent)
+
+        if self.punctuation_removal:
+            tokenized = self.remove_punctuation(tokenized)
+
+        if self.character_tokenization:
+            tokenized = self.SPACE.join(
+                list(tokenized.replace(self.SPACE, self.SPACE_ESCAPE))
+            )
+
+        if self.lowercase:
+            tokenized = tokenized.lower()
+
+        return tokenized