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Maja Pantic

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#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Mind the Accent Gap: British Accent Robustness in Speech-Driven Financial Voice Assistants

AI voice assistants often use Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) with LLM-based reasoning, yet existing systems struggle with regional British accents, including Scottish, Irish, and Welsh accents, since most ASR models are trained predominantly on American English voice data. Consequently, errors can carry through to...

Aadam Haq, Oggi Rudovic, Malcolm Chadwick et al. · 0 citations

Preprint Aug 2026

Listening Forward: Next Patch Embedding Prediction Enables Scalable Audio Learners

NAPE (Next-Audio-Patch-Embedding prediction), a self-supervised framework in which a causal Transformer predicts each next patch embedding of a log-mel spectrogram from the previous ones, using causal masking and stop-gradient as its sole training signal is introduced.

Umberto Cappellazzo, Xu-Bo Liu, Stavros Petridis et al. · 0 citations