Abstract: Visual Speech Recognition (lip-reading) has witnessed tremendous improvements, reaching word error rates as low as 12.8 WER in English. However, the ...

Hong Kong lawmakers on Wednesday voted down a bill that would have granted recognition to same-sex partnerships in the Chinese city, despite the rights offered being limited, in a ...

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