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arXiv Machine Learning By Van-Phat Thai, Aradhya Dhruv, Duc-Thinh Pham, Sameer Alam

Contrastive Regularization for Accent-Robust ASR

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arXiv:2605. 03297v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: ASR systems based on self-supervised acoustic pretraining and CTC fine-tuning achieve strong performance on native speech but remain sensitive to accent variability.

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