Meta has just released a new multilingual automatic speech recognition (ASR) system supporting 1,600+ languages — dwarfing OpenAI’s open source Whisper model, which supports just 99. Is architecture ...

Abstract: Distant Automatic Speech Recognition (DASR) stands as a crucial aspect in the realm of speech and audio processing. Recent advancements have spotlighted the efficacy of pre-trained speech ...

Joanne Orlando receives funding from NSW Department of Education and previously from office of eSafety Commissioner. Walk into a shop, board a plane, log into your bank, or scroll through your social ...

A Palestinian state would be “national suicide” for Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, but many of the diplomats and leaders at the assembly boycotted his remarks. By Ephrat Livni Liam ...

From the battlefields of the Revolutionary War to the trenches of World War II to the sprawling jungles of Vietnam, thousands of our patriotic service members have been horrifically captured by the ...

Attorney General Pam Bondi pledges to go after "hate speech," saying there's no place for it after Charlie Kirk’s assassination. But that isn't U.S. law under the First Amendment, and Kirk himself ...

As ICE ramps up its attempts to locate and deport undocumented immigrants, it’s faced a massive backlash in some parts of the U.S., including protests and, on occasion, attacks of ICE agents. Now, to ...

In today’s voice-first world, it’s not enough for systems to simply hear what users say. They need to understand it with precision. In high-stakes environments like healthcare, finance, or enterprise ...

17:00 – 17:40 40 min Huck Semantic Context and Speech–Language Modeling 17:40 – 18:10 30 min Kyu Contextual Biasing and Methods for Leveraging Extended Semantic Context in Speech Systems Arora, ...