Working With Wav2vec2 Part 1: Finetuning XLS-R for Automatic Speech Recognition

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Introduction Meta AI introduced wav2vec2 XLS-R (“XLS-R”) at the end of 2021. XLS-R is a machine learning (“ML”) model for cross-lingual speech representations learning; and it was trained on over 400,000 hours of publicly available speech audio across 128 languages. Upon its release, the model represented a leap over Meta AI’s XLSR-53 cross-lingual model which … Read more

Here are some of our favorite Star Wars Day deals

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May the Fourth be filled with awesome deals on games, toys, and collectibles. | Image: Star Wars Peruse these awesome deals on Star Wars stuff, you must, because today is May the Fourth. Fans of Lucasfilm’s iconic franchise have long celebrated this day as a kind of borderline-religious holiday of sorts, one that recognizes an … Read more

Ensuring Cyber Resilience: The Imperative of Automating the APT Discovery Process

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Automated AI solutions have been around for over a decade in the cybersecurity space. However, their use has been confined to very surface-level areas—it’s time this changed. With the recent advancements in generative AI, the technology has proven to have a higher ceiling for application, including time-consuming yet vital processes like cyber discovery. In fact, … Read more