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Many minerals are needed in steel production, including iron ore, limestone, and manganese. Amidst panic around shortages of manganese in the United States in the 1940s, the US government launched a series of policies and programs to gain access to this essential "strategic mineral." As a direct response to these policies, from 1949-1984, the Bethlehem Steel Corporation jointly owned a subsidiary company that commenced the first large-scale industrial mining operation in the Brazilian Amazon.

Abstract: In recent years, the field of speech and language processing has made significant strides, yet persistent challenges such as speech noise, limited high-quality data, and the lack of robustness in speech generation systems persist. Furthermore, evaluating speech remains a considerable obstacle for comprehensive assessment at scale. Concurrently, recent breakthroughs in Large Language Models (LLMs) have revolutionized text generation and natural language processing. However, the complexity of spoken language introduces unique hurdles, including managing long speech waveform sequences.