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Approach: They propose a multimodal approach to real-time sequence labeling in speech . they use audio and transcription to jointly learn from a phone call . results show similar pattern of improvements with multimodal learning .
Outcome: The proposed model shows significant gains under adverse noise and limited training data compared to text or audio only under adverse conditions and generalizes to medical symptoms detection.

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