Artificial Intelligence
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Microsoft Research Blog
Tell me when: Building agents that can wait, monitor, and act
SentinelStep enables AI agents to handle monitoring tasks that run for hours or days, like watching for emails or tracking prices. It works by managing when agents should check and their context, avoiding wasted resources…
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Distant conversational speech recognition: Challenges and Opportunities
State-of-the-art ASR systems excel on close-talk benchmarks but struggle with far-field conversational speech, where error rates remain above 20%. Current benchmark datasets inadequately assess generalization across domains and real-world conditions, often relying on oracle segmentation…
