Mega-ASR: Towards In-the-wild^2 Speech Recognition via Scaling up Real-world Acoustic Simulation
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Mega-ASR proposes scaling up real-world acoustic simulation to improve automatic speech recognition in challenging, wild conditions, aiming to narrow the performance gap between lab and real-world settings.
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