DEFENCE OF THE MASTER THESIS BY PETER RUPNIK

Improving Automatic Speech Recognition Benchmarking for Slovenian Through Multi-Reference Evaluation

Defence of the Master Thesis by Peter Rupnik

Published: 12. oct. 2026

IPS invites you to the Defence of the Master Thesis by Peter Rupnik titled: Improving Automatic Speech Recognition Benchmarking for Slovenian Through Multi-Reference Evaluation. The defence will take place on Friday, 16 October 2026, at 10:00 a.m. at the following link: Zoom.

Supervisor: Dr. Nikola Ljubešić.

Short summary:

The thesis explores new benchmarking approaches for automatic speech recognition, using multiple reference transcriptions. This is especially important when working with non-standard speech or dialects. The methods we developed allow for fairer benchmarking and also for profiling models' preferences.

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