AI RESEARCH
Back to Basics: Revisiting ASR in the Age of Voice Agents
arXiv CS.AI
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ArXi:2603.25727v1 Announce Type: new Automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems have achieved near-human accuracy on curated benchmarks, yet still fail in real-world voice agents under conditions that current evaluations do not systematically cover. Without diagnostic tools that isolate specific failure factors, practitioners cannot anticipate which conditions, in which languages, will cause what degree of degradation. We