Sequence Modeling with CTC

Introduction Consider speech recognition. We have a dataset of audio clips and corresponding transcripts. Unfortunately, we don’t know how the characters in the transcript align to the audio. This makes training a speech recognizer harder than it might at first seem. Without this alignment, the simple approaches aren’t available to us. We could devise a […]

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The Threat Of Extreme Statutory Damages For Copyright Almost Certainly Made Anthropic Settle With Authors

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