Abstract: There exist three approaches for multilingual and crosslingual automatic speech recognition (MCL-ASR) - supervised pretraining with phonetic or graphemic transcription, and self-supervised ...

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Here's a closer look at the programming behind my animatronic mouth. Using Arduino, Python, and a few open-source libraries, I take a typed sentence and convert it into an animation sequence.

ABBEVILLE, La. (KLFY) — Abbeville has been awarded the Community Achievement Award for outstanding improvement in community development at the 88th Annual Louisiana Municipal Association Conference.

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Bryan Lagarde, the architect of the Project NOLA crime camera network, says New Orleans can keep its hands off his facial recognition system. The shopkeepers, schools and residents who signed up to ...

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Ohio is home to thousands of Revolutionary War veterans. A new effort aims to preserve their gravesites. Despite the fact Ohio did not exist as a state during the Revolutionary War, it’s become the ...

Speech recognition models, predominantly trained on standard speech, often exhibit lower accuracy for individuals with accents, dialects, or speech impairments. This disparity is particularly ...

Increasing disabled people’s ability to communicate with others is probably the most vital—and exciting—sector in accessibility today. Hold your smartphone and consider how you interact with it: ...