PAREDA: A Multi-Accent Speech Dataset of Natural Language Processing Research Discussions

In three linesPAREDA is a multi-accent speech dataset (Australian, Indian, Chinese English) featuring spontaneous discussions on NLP papers. SOTA ASR models degrade in zero-shot settings, but fine-tuning on PAREDA significantly reduces WER, validating the corpus's value for building robust ASR systems.

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