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Alëna Aksënova

Alëna Aksënova

Alëna is a linguist working on automatic speech recognition. Prior to joining Google, she focused on formal language theory and its applications.

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Accented Speech Recognition: Benchmarking, Pre-training, and Diverse Data

Alëna Aksënova

Zhehuai Chen

Chung-Cheng Chiu

Daan van Esch

Pavel Golik

Wei Han

Levi King

Bhuvana Ramabhadran

Andrew Rosenberg

Suzan Schwartz

Gary Wang

(2022)

How Might We Create Better Benchmarks for Speech Recognition?

Alëna Aksënova

Daan van Esch

James Flynn

Pavel Golik

ACL-IJCNLP 2021 Workshop on Benchmarking: Past, Present and Future (2021)

Learning Interactions of Local and Non-Local Phonotactic Constraints from Positive Input

Alëna Aksënova

Aniello De Santo

Society for Computation in Linguistics (2021)

Algorithmic exploration of American English dialects

Alëna Aksënova

Antoine Bruguier

Amanda Ritchart-Scott

Uri Mendlovic

ICASSP (2020)

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