Peter Bell

WERD: Using social text spelling variants for evaluating dialectal speech recognition

2017 · 2017 IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop (ASRU)

We study the problem of evaluating automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems that target dialectal speech input. A major challenge in this case is that the orthography of dialects is typically not standardized. From an ASR …

Few-shot learning with attention-based sequence-to-sequence models

2018 · arXiv (Cornell University)

End-to-end approaches have recently become popular as a means of simplifying the training and deployment of speech recognition systems. However, they often require large amounts of data to perform well on large vocabulary tasks. With …

Cybernetics After Prompt Engineering: SkillOpt, AutoResearch, and the Governance of Externalized State

2026 · Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

This working paper examines a shift in AI-assisted systems from prompt-level interaction toward externalized state architectures. Prompt engineering changes individual responses, but increasingly important forms of adaptation occur through durable external objects such as skill …