while IFS=$'\t' read -r -a myArray
do
 echo "${myArray[1]}" >> reference.trn
 echo "${myArray[2]}" >> hypothesis.trn
done < wikiniews_results.tsv

awk '{print gensub("^\\*\\*", "\\\\**", "g", $0) "\t(sp1_"NR")"}' < reference.txt > reference.trn
sclite -f 0 -r reference.trn trn -h hypothesis.trn trn -e utf-8 -i rm -o all stdout