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Study Finds Data Scale, Not Latency, Shapes Cross-Lingual Transfer in Streaming ASR
A new arXiv paper examines whether a multilingual or English-only encoder is the better starting point when adapting streaming speech recognition models to another language. The authors report that the deciding factor is the amount of training data rather than latency considerations, challenging the assumption that multilingual encoders are always the stronger warm start.