In early 2026, a small group of first-grade students at Lucy Wortham James Elementary School in St. James, Missouri, sat together sounding out words. Kim Williams, the school’s principal, watched as ...

Abstract: This paper presents a weighted finite state transducer (WFST) based syllable decoding and transduction framework for keyword search (KWS). Acoustic context dependent phone models are trained ...

Abstract: This paper discusses tone pronunciation scoring for Mandarin multi-syllable words in Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) System. A commonly used tone evaluation method is using GMM to ...

[2024/1] Medusa technical report is now available on arXiv. We've added multiple new features, including Medusa-2 recipe for full-model training, self-distillation for adding Medusa to any fine-tuned ...

According to one TikToker, the word is the melding of two words: doppelgänger and chopped Jordan Greene is Society and Culture writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023. Her ...

This paper reports the performance of a representative sample of 747 students (52.5% female), from 2nd to 5th year of elementary education from private and public (83.8%) schools of Sao Paulo city.

As President Trump seeks to purge the federal government of “woke” initiatives, agencies have flagged hundreds of words to limit or avoid, according to a compilation of government documents. Notes: ...