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Voices from the Frontline: Revealing the AI Practitioners' viewpoint on the European AI Act

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Validating Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding for Pre-Filling Radar Labels-Increasing Safety While Reducing Air Traffic Controllers' Workload

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A Two-Step Approach To Leverage Contextual Data: Speech Recognition In Air-Traffic Communications

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