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Too Good to Be True: A Study on Modern Automatic Speech Recognition for the Evaluation of Speech Enhancement
Danilo de Oliveira, Tal Peer, Timo Gerkmann
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.12107 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.12107 https://arxiv.org/html/2605.12107
arXiv:2605.12107v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Speech enhancement (SE) systems are typically evaluated using a variety of instrumental metrics. The use of automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems to evaluate SE performance is common in literature, usually in terms of word error rate (WER). However, WER scores depend heavily on the choice of ASR system and text normalization pipeline. In this paper, we investigate how modern ASR models correlate with human recognition of enhanced speech. A listening experiment reveals that modern ASR models with large-scale noisy training and embedded language models correlate more with human WER than simpler ones, with a transducer model providing the most reliable transcriptions. Nevertheless, we also show that these models' robustness to noise and use of context can be uninformative to an acoustics-focused evaluation of enhancement performance.
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#GitHub disabled 73 #Microsoft repositories across four of its GitHub organizations — the entire #Azure Functions org, the whole

The Blight Reaches Microsoft: 73 Repos Disabled in 105 Seconds
GitHub disabled 73 Microsoft repositories across four of its GitHub organizations — the entire Azure Functions org, the whole Durable Task family, and a row of AI sample apps — in a 105-second sweep on June 5. The recompromised durabletask package sits at the center, and the fingerprints point at the open-sourced Miasma worm.

#StuartAdams, who has been in the news several times for corruption like his Qatar junket and changing the law to protect his statutory rapist relative, is yet again in the news for corruption.
#utpol #Utah

Stuart Adams' PAC received $135,000 from MIDA-connected donors days after approving controversial data center
Utah Senate President Stuart Adams' political action committee collected $135,000 from five MIDA-connected donors in a single day — the five largest donations in the PAC's history — just days after Adams chaired the approval of Kevin O'Leary's controversial 40,000-acre data center in northern Utah.

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RE: https://flipboard.com/@theeconomist/leaders-g74q8sgvz/-/a-Pi2jMVORQnKek1GT_IkLYA:a:3199507-/0
quote reposting this not because I agree with it, but because it may single-handedly be the most hilario…

NFL news roundup: Niners, Mac Jones agree to revised 2026 contract that adds $300K roster bonus https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-news-roundup-latest-league-updates-from-wednesday-may-27

The US Congress has passed a 45-day extension of a law that grants US intelligence agencies warrantless spying powers.
Bitter infighting over section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act in the Republican wing of Congress has repeatedly tanked conservative leaders’ plans to renew the controversial surveillance law for multiple years.
The deadlock continued on Thursday, as the Republican House speaker Mike Johnson refused to include key reforms pushed by hardliners in …

GitHub if Microsoft designed it.

Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.GT. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.GT/new
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- Insurance of Agentic AI
Quanyan Zhu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.05449 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csAI_bot/116696535801623005
- Bitcoin After Block Rewards
Junhyuk Lee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.05503 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCR_bot/116696457548098249
- Online Min-Cost Matching with General Arrivals
Josh Ascher, Eric Balkanski, Jason Chatzitheodorou, Vasilis Gkatzelis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.05546 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDS_bot/116696483136717005
- Measuring Concentration of Power in Approval Voting Games
Takaaki Abe
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.05655 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_econTH_bot/116696378312014137
- Learning to Contest: Decentralized Robust Fairness in Cooperative MARL via Cross-Attention
Can Savc{\i}
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.06162 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csMA_bot/116696376542763270
- Regret Minimization with Adaptive Opponents in Repeated Games
Mingyang Liu, Asuman Ozdaglar, Tiancheng Yu, Kaiqing Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.06486
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Turkiye has revoked the operational licence ⁠for ⁠a top private university with liberal values,
effectively forcing it to close in the middle of the academic year,
after the institution was seized ⁠by the state in a criminal investigation last year.
In a presidential decree, published in the Official Gazette on Friday, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan revoked the operating licence for Istanbul Bilgi University,
which has an estimated 20,000 students from Turkiye and acr…

Turkiye shutters liberal Istanbul university seized in criminal probe
Council of Higher Education promised to take measures to ensure Bilgi University students ‘suffer no harm’.