Add benchmarking logic for memory, wer and speed (#773)

benchmark/speed_benchmark.py

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+import argparse
+import timeit
+
+from typing import Callable
+
+from utils import inference
+
+parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="Speed benchmark")
+parser.add_argument(
+    "--repeat",
+    type=int,
+    default=3,
+    help="Times an experiment will be run.",
+)
+args = parser.parse_args()
+
+
+def measure_speed(func: Callable[[], None]):
+    # as written in https://docs.python.org/3/library/timeit.html#timeit.Timer.repeat,
+    # min should be taken rather than the average
+    runtimes = timeit.repeat(
+        func,
+        repeat=args.repeat,
+        number=10,
+    )
+    print(runtimes)
+    print("Min execution time: %.3fs" % (min(runtimes) / 10.0))
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    measure_speed(inference)