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call center operators

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Small language model quickly detects scam calls with calibrated confidence

Open-Jev Judgments on CallScreenBench: Calibrated One-Pass Scam Screening with a Small Language Model

Abstract: Screening a phone call for fraud needs a trustworthy probability after every caller turn, in milliseconds. Jev-style typed decisions promise exactly that: declared options go in, one calibrated probability per option comes out of a single forward pass, with no generated text. We test an open implementation of this readout, JevLite, on scam-call screening: Qwen3-4B is LoRA-tuned so that the temperature-scaled softmax over two answer-label logits is P(scam). On 41 held-out CallScreenBench scenarios (577 per-turn decisions) a three-seed ensemble reaches AUROC .974 with calibration error .052, non-inferior to an LLM judge (MiniMax-M3) at a pre-registered .02 margin, with no false alarms on legitimate calls, decisions 1.14 turns earlier under the same hang-up rule, and 64.5 ms per decision on one consumer GPU, 4.9x lower than the same backbone fine-tuned to generate its answer. The gain is in the readout and calibration, not accuracy: a fine-tuned ModernBERT encoder is not significantly worse, the recipe was selected with test-set exposure, and all callers are synthetic. We claim no architectural novelty; the contribution is the application and an evaluation reporting calibration, false alarms and decision timing alongside AUROC.

Mon 21 SeptComputation and Language
The gist
Phone calls can sometimes be scams, and it's important to know quickly if a call is risky. The authors tested a way to use a small language model to decide if a call is a scam right after each part of the conversation. This method gives a trustworthy probability instead of a generated text answer, which makes decisions faster. They found it works about as well as bigger models but much faster and with fewer false alarms on safe calls.
Open 2609.23959v1

Style aware paraphrasing reduces text authorship identification risks

I Am No One: Style-Aware Paraphrasing for Text Anonymization

Abstract: Authorship attribution models can re-identify users from seemingly anonymized text by exploiting stable stylistic fingerprints, even after explicit identifiers are removed, posing a growing privacy risk for text publishing and analytics. This risk extends to speech-derived text such as ASR transcripts of meetings and call-center conversations, where stylometric leakage can persist even after acoustic anonymization. Differential privacy-based anonymization often severely degrades text quality and utility. We propose a style-aware, prompt-driven anonymization approach that uses pretrained large language models to construct compact stylistic profiles from minimal samples and rewrite text to suppress identifiable style markers while preserving meaning. Across blog and review datasets, our approach reduces authorship attribution F1 by 60-70% while maintaining content quality and readability, substantially outperforming DP-based and non-DP baselines.

Fri 11 SeptComputation and LanguageCryptography and Security
The gist
Text can reveal who wrote it based on writing style even if names are removed. The authors found a way to rewrite text using AI that changes the style to hide who wrote it, while keeping the meaning clear. This method makes it much harder to guess the author and keeps the text easy to read. It works better than past privacy methods that often made texts hard to understand.
Open 2609.12341v1

Qwen audio 3.0 ASR system recognizes diverse languages and dialects

Qwen-Audio-3.0-ASR Technical Report

Abstract: In recent years, automatic speech recognition (ASR) has witnessed transformative advancements driven by three complementary paradigms: data scaling, model scaling, and deep integration with large language models (LLMs). However, bridging the gap between academic benchmark performance and real-world production utility remains a persistent challenge, particularly in handling diverse regional dialects, dynamic entities and hotwords, long-range contextual information, and disfluent spontaneous speech. In this report, we present Qwen-Audio-3.0-ASR, a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) LLM-based ASR system designed to address these production demands through a unified, instruction-following framework. The model is built upon the Qwen backbone, and is trained on tens of millions of hours of large-scale speech data. Qwen-Audio-3.0-ASR supports transcription across 30 languages and 16 Chinese dialectal varieties spanning eight major dialect regions. Beyond multilingual and dialectal recognition, the model provides production-oriented capabilities including industry-domain entity recognition, hierarchical hotword customization, native single-pass transcription polishing, and long-audio contextual modeling. We further develop a dedicated streaming variant, Qwen-Audio-3.0-ASR-Streaming, for latency-sensitive applications. Extensive evaluations on Chinese, English, multilingual, and real-world industrial test sets demonstrate state-of-the-art or highly competitive recognition performance across a broad range of evaluation conditions, with strong performance relative to leading commercial and proprietary systems including GPT-4o Transcribe and Gemini 3.1 Pro.

Mon 7 SeptComputation and Language
The gist
Speech recognition technology can struggle with different accents, long conversations, and unusual words. The authors created Qwen-Audio-3.0-ASR, a speech recognition system that understands 30 languages and 16 Chinese dialects. It handles long audio, special words, and spontaneous speech better by combining a large language model with expert modules. This system also includes a fast streaming version for real-time transcription needs. Tests show it works as well or better than top commercial products in many real-world situations.
Open 2609.07549v1