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TID System for Speech-COSER Challenge 2026: ASR Track
arXiv cs.AI · Published · 3 min read
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- What happened
- Telefónica researchers submitted an ASR system for elderly Spanish speech recognition using CTC-based alignment scoring, LoRA curriculum training, and magnitude pruning.
- Why it matters
- Speech recognition engineers building systems for elderly or rural speakers need robust techniques for handling spontaneous, challenging audio.
- Watch out
- Results are challenge-specific; generalization to other speaker populations or languages remains unclear from this submission.
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