diff --git a/src/coral_models/compute_metrics.py b/src/coral_models/compute_metrics.py
index 9e252ecf..79e0a7e5 100644
--- a/src/coral_models/compute_metrics.py
+++ b/src/coral_models/compute_metrics.py
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ def compute_wer_metrics(pred: EvalPrediction, processor: Processor) -> dict[str,
             dictionary with 'wer' as the key and the word error rate as the value.
     """
     wer_metric = load_metric("wer")
+    cer_metric = load_metric("cer")
     tokenizer: PreTrainedTokenizerBase = getattr(processor, "tokenizer")
     pad_token = tokenizer.pad_token_id
 
@@ -84,13 +85,26 @@ def compute_wer_metrics(pred: EvalPrediction, processor: Processor) -> dict[str,
         logger.info(f"Sample document: {labels_str[random_idx]}")
         logger.info(f"Predicted: {predictions_str[random_idx]}")
 
-    # Compute the word error rate
-    computed = wer_metric.compute(predictions=predictions_str, references=labels_str)
-    assert computed is not None
+    metrics: dict[str, float] = dict()
 
-    # Ensure that `wer` is a dict, as metrics in the `evaluate` library can either be
-    # dicts or floats
-    if not isinstance(computed, dict):
-        return dict(wer=computed)
+    # Compute the word error rate
+    wer_computed = wer_metric.compute(
+        predictions=predictions_str, references=labels_str
+    )
+    assert wer_computed is not None
+    if not isinstance(wer_computed, dict):
+        metrics = metrics | dict(wer=wer_computed)
     else:
-        return computed
+        metrics = metrics | wer_computed
+
+    # Compute the character error rate
+    cer_computed = cer_metric.compute(
+        predictions=predictions_str, references=labels_str
+    )
+    assert cer_computed is not None
+    if not isinstance(cer_computed, dict):
+        metrics = metrics | dict(cer=cer_computed)
+    else:
+        metrics = metrics | cer_computed
+
+    return metrics