‘I just want the Australian public to know’: Why pointed Welcome to Country speech was given

A prominent family member of the first Indigenous Australian to become a member of any parliament of Australia has defended ...
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Enhanced Machine Learning Framework for English Speaking Assessment: Addressing Accent and Speech Variability Through BiLSTM-Transformer Architecture

Abstract: Automated speech assessment still faces the challenge of accurate recognition of diverse English accents. However, benefitting from temporal and contextual variations in speech data, ...

Sophie Clarke: Northern Irish accents aren’t exotic or incomprehensible and it’s time people stopped pretending they are

As a child of the Peace Agreement, I don’t hear my accent as political or difficult - so why does the rest of the UK still ...
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Unsupervised End-to-End Accented Speech Recognition Under Low-Resource Conditions

Abstract: Accents, characterized by deviations from standard pronunciation, often lead to a sharp decline in the performance of speech recognition systems. This issue becomes even more serious when ...