diff --git a/torchmetrics/text/mer.py b/torchmetrics/text/mer.py
index e1787c047d0..735ba10f168 100644
--- a/torchmetrics/text/mer.py
+++ b/torchmetrics/text/mer.py
@@ -38,7 +38,6 @@ class MatchErrorRate(Metric):
         - C is the number of correct words,
         - N is the number of words in the reference (N=S+D+C).
 
-    Compute ``MatchErrorRate`` score of transcribed segments against references.
 
     Args:
         compute_on_step: