AIBearisharXiv – CS AI · Mar 276/10
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Back to Basics: Revisiting ASR in the Age of Voice Agents
Researchers introduced WildASR, a multilingual diagnostic benchmark revealing that current ASR systems suffer severe performance degradation in real-world conditions despite achieving near-human accuracy on curated tests. The study found that ASR models often hallucinate plausible but unspoken content under degraded inputs, creating safety risks for voice agents.