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The authors state that for distant speech the performance of automatic speech recognition is dramatically reduced compared with the close-talking case.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“in the case of distant-speech input the ASR performance is dramatically reduced, if compared to a close-talking case.”
Realistic multi-microphone data simulation for distant speech recognition, Mirco Ravanelli et al., arXiv (preprint, eess.AS), 2017, Section 4.2, Single distant-microphone performance.
Open the original- What it measures
- The authors' own summary of Table 1, written after the close-talking baseline in section 4.1.
- What it does not show
- A qualitative statement, given with the numbers in the paper. It describes one apartment and one recognizer.
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