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Silent speech recognition (SSR) is a technology that recognizes speech content from non-acoustic speech-related biosignals. This paper utilizes an attention-enhanced temporal convolutional network architecture for contactless IR-UWB…
The performance of automatic speech recognition (ASR) has improved tremendously due to the application of deep neural networks (DNNs). Despite this progress, building a new ASR system remains a challenging task, requiring various resources,…
Connectionist Temporal Classification (CTC) is a widely used approach for automatic speech recognition (ASR) that performs conditionally independent monotonic alignment. However for translation, CTC exhibits clear limitations due to the…
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