Abstract: Visual Speech Recognition (lip-reading) has witnessed tremendous improvements, reaching word error rates as low as 12.8 WER in English. However, the ...

Abstract: There exist three approaches for multilingual and crosslingual automatic speech recognition (MCL-ASR) - supervised pretraining with phonetic or graphemic transcription, and self-supervised ...

ALBANY, N.Y. – New York lawmakers are considering a sweeping proposal to prohibit law enforcement from using biometric surveillance technology, while creating a task force to study if and how such ...

America’s embrace of surveillance technology and a regular series of arrests based on false matches are keeping the question of whether U.S. police use of facial recognition is appropriate on the ...

NEW YORK (WABC) -- Civil rights and privacy groups are demanding an investigation into the NYPD's alleged misuse of facial recognition technology after a false match led to a man being wrongfully ...

Kamala Harris delivered her closing argument speech to American voters ahead of Election Day back in 2024. During her speech, she warned voters that Trump would brandish the U.S. military against its ...

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Police in Scotland have confirmed their decision to use live facial recognition (LFR), nearly 10 years after the technology was rolled out by police forces across England and Wales. The police ...