Preprints – generally defined as a publicly available version of a research manuscript prior to formal assessment and publication via a journal-mediated peer review process – are becoming a common feature in some research communities. Accelerated sharing of research findings, creating a citable research output to show evidence of research productivity, creating opportunities for community feedback and collaboration, and increased attention and citation are some of the ways preprints can benefit researchers (References 1-4). Preprints also create opportunities for publishers seeking to address pain points associated with lengthy peer review processes. To this end, since October 2018, Research Square has collaborated with Springer Nature to offer In Review, a preprint service that integrates preprint posting with ongoing journal peer review and provides transparency into the peer review process. In Review helps Nature authors rapidly share their research findings while also providing journal-mediated quality control checks on the posted preprint and transparency into the peer-review process. 

1) https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2670247
2) https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.05238
3) https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0411275
4) https://elifesciences.org/articles/52646

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Brazilian Electricity Regulatory Agency (ANEEL) defines as non-technical losses the problems that happen during the energy consumption measurement process. A feasible alternative to reduce those losses is the energy consumption reading process performed by customers, called self-reading. This process might be executed across digital platforms such as mobile applications and the customers would register and send consumption information. In this context, the consumption reading using voice is a simple way for the public that has lower affinity for technology to perform self-reading. Therefore, this work proposes an end-to-end speech recognition method applied to the energy consumption measurement that uses a neural network architecture based on Recurrent Neural Network Transducer (RNN-T). The proposed method uses a modified architecture called Residual Recurrent Neural Network Transducer (RRNN-T) which contains a Residual Skip that make its behavior similar to a network shallower than RNN-T by skipping some layers in the training process. That strategy saves computational cost of the inference process and disk space. A spelled sequence of digits is the input of the proposed method that recognizes those digits and outputs the electrical energy consumption reading measured in kilowatts per hour. The dataset used in this work contains 111,224 samples of spelled sequences divided into 70\% for training and 30\% for test. The proposed method obtains 0.05 word error rate (WER) and inference time less than 3 seconds on mobile devices.

Self-Reading by Speech: An End-to-end Speech Recognition Method Applied to the Energy Consumption Measurement on Mobile Devices

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The second edition of the PEERE International Conference on Peer Review aims to provide a forum for scholars, practitioners and science stakeholders to share research, models, tools and experience on peer review in different fields, e.g., medicine, computer science, social sciences and humanities. It aims to stimulate the use of evidence-based research in the design and implementation of peer review in a variety of fields and encourage more systematic research.

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