HousingWire

Keep calm and carry on: Mortgage rates steady as inflation cools

A January storm that wreaked havoc across much of the U.S. pushed existing home sales down, but a positive inflation report gave housing professionals and consumers a reason to believe that mortgage ...
The Motley Fool

President Donald Trump and Wall Street Want Lower Interest Rates -- but Fed Chair Nominee Kevin Warsh May Have Other Plans

The Dow Jones Industrial Average, S&P 500, and Nasdaq Composite are soaring -- and the prospect of future interest rate cuts is a foundational reason why. On Jan. 30, President Trump nominated Kevin ...
IEEE

Fast Word Error Rate Estimation Using Self-Supervised Representations for Speech and Text

Abstract: Word error rate (WER) estimation aims to evaluate the quality of an automatic speech recognition (ASR) system’s output without requiring ground-truth ...
IEEE

Minimum Word Error Rate Training for Attention-Based Sequence-to-Sequence Models

Abstract: Sequence-to-sequence models, such as attention-based models in automatic speech recognition (ASR), are typically trained to optimize the cross-entropy criterion which corresponds to ...