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Taxonomy DetailsIncident Number
102
Notes (special interest intangible harm)
Voice recognition software's performance varied depending on the speaker's regional accents and race. Speech recognition performed worse for African American vernacular.
Special Interest Intangible Harm
yes
Date of Incident Year
2020
CSETv1_Annotator-1 Taxonomy Classifications
Taxonomy DetailsIncident Number
102
AI Tangible Harm Level Notes
3.3 - Though an AI was involved, there is no tangible harm to link it to.
Special Interest Intangible Harm
yes
Date of Incident Year
2020
Date of Incident Month
3
Date of Incident Day
23
CSETv1_Annotator-2 Taxonomy Classifications
Taxonomy DetailsIncident Number
102
Notes (special interest intangible harm)
Voice recognition software's performance varied depending on the speaker's regional accents and race.
Special Interest Intangible Harm
yes
Date of Incident Year
2020
Date of Incident Month
03
Date of Incident Day
23
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Speech recognition systems have more trouble understanding black users’ voices than those of white users, according to a new Stanford study.
The researchers used voice recognition tools from Apple, Amazon, Google, IBM, and Microsoft to tran…
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Automated speech recognition (ASR) systems are now used in a variety of applications to convert spoken language to text, from virtual assistants, to closed captioning, to hands-free computing. By analyzing a large corpus of sociolinguistic …
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